Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accompanied by his wife Mary, billowed through the hustings, laughing off barrages of eggs, bags of talcum powder, Tory hecklers and even a bolt of lightning that struck his train at Attenborough. Heath, whistling across the sceptred isle in an executive prop jet. plugged away at his efforts to swing 49 key marginal constituencies away from Labor. But Heath was unable to match Wilson's jaunty confidence. He did unbend enough toward the campaign's end to drink with workers in pubs and buss young girls. Nonetheless. Heath sniffed. "I don't regard this election...
...offspring; then, guided by a two-man crew, it dives back toward earth, using auxiliary jet engines and stubby, finlike wings to touch down like an ordinary aircraft. The smaller rocket ship continues to soar until it reaches a "parking" orbit about 115 miles high. After a single swing around the earth, it resumes its climb, gingerly approaches its target, and then docks with a huge, slowly rotating space station. Once the passengers -several scientists and engineers, two Congressmen, a doctor and a journalist -have disembarked through an airlock, the ship frees itself from the station, drops back toward earth...
...years of marriage (four children), I thought the line from "Bedroom Athletics" to "move your pelvis and be hind as if they were loaded with ball bearings" would bring a chuckle from my wife. To my amazement she leaped from her chair and began to demonstrate her golf swing while muttering, "That must be the trouble...
...intoned one of Tunney's final-days TV spots. "Because I want to help end the senseless killing in Southeast Asia." Most of Tunney's money went into TV, it seemed, because in the last few weeks he was all over the tube. It was enough to swing it. and though Tunney still seemed stiff and ill at ease up there before crowds, he looked good and he sounded right and, hell, he's not a bad guy. You could figure him. But Brown...
Halston's midis tell more than most minis did. His sarong-wrap skirts, held together with two buttons, swing apart with the slightest movement, and his figure8 skirt-one section in front, one in the back, with a good deal in between left out-would be certain to leave the Ice Capades cold...