Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's views on dealing with the Soviet Union. Undercutting the SALT talks and undermining U.S. foreign policy? No, said Muskie, he was simply talking as a ''private citizen." The ploy is familiar: Richard Nixon used it when he hobnobbed with world leaders on a 1967 swing, ostensibly as a lawyer representing the Reader's Digest. The fact is that there are no private citizens on presidential campaign trails. Score one for agility, not indecision...
...time around, he is concentrating on the theme of dissent, he said. "The war in Vietnam was my excuse for dissent," he says, but he stresses the importance of action on many issues. "The first Harvard and Columbia strikes are good examples of how a very small minority can swing a majority to their support.... What is this law and order that the authorities are pulling to their support-what do they mean, telling black people they can't riot?" he asks indignantly...
...Daily News in 1910, Mowrer belonged to the new generation of adventurous but analytical World War I foreign correspondents. He reported the early years of the war from behind French and German lines and hired other dashing young reporters for the News, including his brother Edgar and Raymond Gram Swing, later radio's calm oracle. Mowrer covered the Versailles Treaty talks and the Riff war in Spanish Morocco, became adviser and go-between for diplomats and statesmen. He won the first Pulitzer Prize for foreign correspondence in 1928, returned home to become editor of the News for nine years...
...varsity crew, which had only been together for two days, blasted any rumors that the already-tested Bruins would upset the Crimson but at the same time they were self-admittedly unimpressive. The boat seemed to lack swing and was at times jerky, but this could easily be attributed to a strong cross wind that swept off the Cambridge shore. At any rate, even though encouraging, the victory was chiefly a musele job by the Crimson shell which can be longer and go faster...
...really a unit yet." Hobbs said. "Yesterday was the first day we really rowed hard. On the power we were very good but all in all we lacked swing...