Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swing that. Just get back here to my counter in thirty...
...starters in the field, Bill Kelly and Pete Bernhard, will also see action on the mound. In eight innings this spring, Kelly has allowed only one hit. He is Park's ideal pitcher: "He throws strikes. He makes the batter swing...
...also not in shape to take a full swing at the plate," DeMichele added. "I have to remember I don't have a stick in my hands, and get accustomed to taking a full turn. I haven't been exactly setting the world on fire...
...another round in the House, politicians on both sides are already looking beyond congressional action to the impact of the 18-year-old vote on themselves and the country. It may be lighter than many expect. Though most politicians have assumed that lowering the voting age will cause a swing to the left, Political Demographer Richard Scammon predicts no such effect. Using as a guide the 35%-40% turnout of those under 21 in two of the states that already allow them to vote-Georgia and Kentucky-Scammon ran the youth vote back over the 1968 election. The results...
That, of course, is blasphemy?but blasphemy backed by a great deal of Kafkaesque evidence. The Federal Government, for one, sets a particularly disastrous example: it has given the nation, among other questionable monuments to efficiency, the farm-subsidy program, the F-111 swing-wing jet, and urban renewal (sometimes referred to as "Negro removal"). A congressional committee recently heard that between 1951 and 1964 the federal-highway building program in the Baltimore area, for instance, destroyed 21% of housing available to low-income blacks, jamming them into ever more crowded slums...