Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday morning, the first round of the two-day event, the intrepid duo teed it up with almost nary a practice swing in seven weeks. Fitzgibbons, however, had devised a dubious strategy to compensate for the creaky swings of the Harvard twosome...
Packwood has been targeted by Right-to-Life as the number-one public official it hopes to defeat in 1980. "Right-to-Life doesn't need to get 55 per cent of the vote to win," Packwood said. "In a swing district, if you lose just 4 or 5 per cent, you've lost the election," he added...
...fighting-fire-with-fire schedule includes a sojourn to South Carolina next Monday and a Christmas vacation swing westward to face Stanford, Brigham Young, and Pepperdine. Sandwich those teams around the Rainbow Classic in Hawaii (Harvard has drawn Arizona State in the first round), add a Boston Garden date (against Boston College as part of a college doubleheader), sprinkle Holy Cross in for good measure, and you begin to understand wny even the most rabid Harvard hoop aficionado will settle for a .500 season...
...exercises special caution at the entrance of his apartment building. "The doors there are quite heavy, and I hold them open for anyone following me, male or female. There are still some women, however, who feel no obligation to hold those doors for me, and so they let them swing back and whack me in the face...
...success at Camp David, Carter was generally considered a liability, and there was little demand for his help in campaigns. In the 31 states he has visited, he turned out crowds, aroused some excitement and drummed up publicity for the candidates. But an ABC News/Harris analysis of 104 swing districts indicated that the President had no measurable influence in the districts he visited. But then neither did Ted Kennedy, Ronald Reagan or Gerald Ford. Coattails, which never mean too much in an off year, seemed especially threadbare...