Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lost Yards. Last week Ford took a three-day swing through Kentucky, Illinois and Nebraska that looked remarkably like a campaign tour. He thumped the tub for campaign funds...
...three positions, one is primarily offensive, one is primarily defensive and the third is a swing position played by an all-purpose rider. Though each member receives a specific assignment, a good team will trade off positions as the game develops...
...that any evening stragglers can see the wide swathe of light cast onto the fog. The men already there order another Pernod and wait. Their wives will not close the shutters or put out dinner until the fog breaks. The priest in the chapel rings the angelus against the swing of the tide, a tinny sound amid the din. He waits for the fog to lift so the people in the town, carrying their flashlights through the streets, can come to evening mass...
Harvard's improvement this year has been noticeable. "We are much better now than we were last year," Lee said, "and the cycle is on an upward swing...
...addition to its internal debates, Syria was getting conflicting advice from other countries. Visiting Damascus last week in the course of an oil-hunting, arms-dealing swing through Arab countries, French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert told Syrian officials that he "understood" their positions. Jobert cautioned them against depending on "foreign efforts" to obtain a settlement. Palestinian guerrillas were also vocal in urging Syria not to settle. Their newspaper Falastin al-Thawra called for Arab solidarity against Israel and said, "Victory will be the lot of those who are long-winded and capable of enduring...