Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commerce Department reported that the nation in the second quarter actually took in $463 million more from foreigners than it disbursed overseas, a startling swing from a $10.5 billion balance of payments deficit in the previous three months. For complex technical reasons, these figures are considered to be less significant than they once were. But the U.S. also ran a surplus of $706 million on international exchange of goods and services compared with a mere $1,000,000 the quarter before-a more meaningful improvement...
Fairway pundits have been trying to explain what makes Tom Weiskopf tick ever since he joined the professional golf tour in 1964. It became a clubhouse cliche that the rangy (6 ft. 3 in.) blond with the sweet swing had all the moves but none of the grit, cool or concentration of a true star. "We worry about Tom a lot," said one tour veteran. "We wonder if you looked in his ear whether you'd see daylight or cartoons or something...
...spite of all these apparent infractions, Congressmen and Senators have been very careful about impeachment talk. Only a few, like Bella Abzug (D-NY) and John E. Moss (D-Calif.) have openly discussed the possibility of impeachment proceedings. Most are waiting for public opinion to swing against the President and in favor of impeachment before they will participate in such talk. And the Democrats are saying that any impeachment proceedings will have to start with the Republicans...
...everything in her. At the Canadian Nationals five years ago, while Dickie's younger sister, Donna, was playing, Mr. Stockton stuck a racket through the fist of his tousle-haired three year old and was tossing tennis balls at him, trying to get this kid who half-crawled to swing a flat forehand. Meanwhile Mrs. Stockton kept trying tried to intercept the tosses with mad clutching movements. And she kept shrieking, "You're not going to get this one! You're not going to wreck this one like you wrecked the others...
...possibility that Congress will enact a law that would break up the big oil companies along functional lines. Currently, such legislation stands only a slim chance of passing. But if this winter brings fuel oil shortages or next summer brings a repetition of the gasoline scare, sentiment could swing in favor of such...