Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though bothered by increasing deafness, Mrs. Post never succumbed to the role of diamond-dusting dowager. She remained an active member of the General Foods board until her 71st year, when company policy forced her into retirement. She maintained her regal, ramrod posture and her vigorous golf swing well into her eighth decade, and rumors of yet another romance circulated after her fourth divorce...
...contemporaries are breaking into the insurance business or learning microphone manners, he confessed that "I can't play every day anymore. It's not that you get tired, but your body just doesn't come back as fast as it did. You think you can swing the bat, but you're just a fraction off. The balls you used to hit out of the ballpark you're fouling off. I need more sleep now. Sometimes I'll lie down at 9 p.m. and sleep till...
Offensive tackle is probably the biggest headache for the Crimson coach at this time. While Tim Manna has one side sewed up, the other starting spot and the swing position are still unfilled. "I don't see anyone out of the pack who can stabilize our situation," Restic said. Restic has been working Danny Jiggetts, Dave Burlage, and Bob Wagner the most in his quest to find a solution to his tackle problem...
...Orleans jazz; following surgery; in Basel, Switzerland. Nicholas grew up alongside such greats as Sidney Bechet and Louis Armstrong, in whose band he later played. In the 1950s, Nicholas followed other American musicians to Europe and settled in jazz-hungry Paris, playing and touring with the Dutch Swing College Band...
...need for Presidents to travel is self-evident, but it can be asked whether motion is replacing substance. Nixon's recent cross-country swing was an engineered spectacle that started with his speech in the Oval Office, sped south to Florida, then on to New Orleans and the specially selected VFW audience, and came to rest by the Pacific. It was supposed to be a triumphal march from coast to coast, an antidote to Watergate. It failed because of Nixon's nervousness and because it was a hollow concept...