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Word: swings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fathers of families." Most of the residents participate in weekly seminars led by Catholic laymen. "We discuss religion and what really matters," says Freshman Jerry Addonizio. "Before Thanksgiving vacation, we talked about how to make your parents happy-when you come in, maybe pick your mother up and swing her around a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Commune for Conservatives | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

Certainly Barnaby deserves much of the credit for the win, for in squash, despite its individual nature, coaching is of the utmost importance. After his Princeton match Friday. Jaime Gonzalez said of his opponent, "He was a good tennis player. He had the classic swing and good shots, but he wasn't too much as a squash player. He didn't slice the ball or feather it, and he didn't surprise me with the walls." The challenge of squash is never just to return the ball but always to do something with a shot, and that is what Barnaby...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: A Touch of Garlic | 2/23/1971 | See Source »

Anarchic Slum. With the I.R.A. Provisionals bent on escalating warfare -against Protestants, the British troops and even the Marxist-oriented members of the "official" I.R.A.-London faced some difficult decisions. The British could round up terrorist leaders and intern them under the Special Powers Act, but this might swing the Catholic moderates to the militant cause. The British could withdraw their troops, but then there would be no buffer between Protestants and Catholics. Or London could impose direct rule from Westminster, but this, too, would unite the Catholics and lead to greater violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Northern Ireland: The Children's War | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

Cooch Owen walked over to the bus with Harry Reynolds. "Hay, Harry, Do you wear jockeys or swing easies?" Harry mumbled, and Coach laughed. Dan DiMichele got on the bus, sat down, and wrote "Brown sucks" on the frosted over window. I got on the bus as inconspicuously as I could. The hockey team isn't too fond...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: On The Bench | 2/12/1971 | See Source »

Antithesis. The trouble is that swingers often find themselves too busy; the rule is to swing only once with the same couple (so that no intimate, marriage-destroying relationships develop). Thus the search for "beautiful" or "great" (contrasted with "moldy") partners is never ending. Eventually hours of the swingers' waking day are spent on the phone or writing letters to make new contacts-or driving hundreds of miles to meet them. Sheer exhaustion causes many to drop out of swinging after two years or so of frantic activity. More important is disillusionment. Finally able to act out adolescent fantasies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The American Way Of Swinging | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

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