Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, that Tito eagerly embraced in the early 1950s when he led his vulnerable nation of 21 million on its courageous spin away from Moscow's orthodox Communist orbit. While some believe that the new hard line may be temporary and tactical, the severity of Yugoslavia's swing toward rigidity has led many Yugoslavs to worry that the experiment in Communism-with-a-difference is coming...
Sparrow. Clemente quickly became one of the most feared scatter hitters in baseball. Standing a full yard away from the plate, cocking his extra-long bat and twitching his neck like a nervous sparrow, he was a notorious bad-ball hitter who would rather swing at a wild pitch than settle for a walk. Opposing pitchers went crazy trying to figure out his weakness. In one game Cincinnati Reds' hurlers pitched him inside, down the middle and outside, and he hit successive home runs to left, right center and right field. "The big thing about Clemente," Giants' Pitcher...
...They walk home morosely. The dog goes to sleep, and the man goes to work, producing eleven plays, six films and five musicals in the next two years. They match the G.N.P. dollar for dollar, making the AMORPHOUS MASS, the critics and the IRS delirious. SIMON continues to swing his racket in the dark, waiting either for a bus or an inspiration for a new and purely serious masterpiece. Neither vehicle arrives...
...night against Penn when Harvard hit at a 50 per cent clip in the first half in opening up a 7 point lead. In the second half, they only hit 24 per cent of their shots. Harrison's offense seems to set corner shots from 20 feet rather than swing off the post to utilize the height advantage with pick and rolls...
...after the shattering, unexpected death of her brother. Virginia's desire to break with a past burdened by precious personal loss was fortified by her willingness to defy Victorian convention. Bloomsburysociety was by now in high swing, Virginia was one of its hostesses, entertaining geniuses destined to fame. Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey, and geniuses contracted to obscurity. Saxon Syndey-Turner. Bell reveals the Virginia of the Bloomsbury period to have irresistible, gay, irreverent, charming, flirtatious and independent. Admidst the libertarian affairs of Bloomsbury Virginia was also earnestly training for her craft. She read omnivorously, took up journalism, practiced writing...