Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roberts, meanwhile, who held a barely comforting but nevertheless upper hand in the early sixties, when Finney could only rankle at his own inhibitions, must now suffer the humiliation of seeing her husband swing free and appear, at least, to be having a grand old time. The director, Anthony Page, attaches time tags to each of the film's sequences without pushing the point, but the message comes across nonetheless: in the period after marital hypocrisy had been declared taboo but before women began to really assert their rights, a housewife who had surrendered her identity to her husband faced...
...Ruth Clark of the public opinion research firm Yankelovich, Skelly & White Inc., which has done political polling for us since 1972. TIME correspondents last week visited seven of these families, and talked by telephone with most of the rest, to gauge what if anything the debate had done to swing them to a commitment...
...Engineers' Beneficial Association, a union that has long been a big contributor to his campaigns. Whether either of these will turn out to be a real campaign problem remains uncertain, but the point is that there is so much volatility in the election that almost any unpredictable event could swing it?perhaps even the next debate...
...basically just a ball beater," he says. "If Alex started to hook the ball badly, I really wouldn't want to fool with his swing...
Racing is the down home sport of North Carolina. The tapeworm roads that swing through the Piedmont hills seem designed for it, and until this decade they were used for exactly that by moonshiners. Almost every male over 14 shyly admits to a little informal dark-of-night racing experience. California teen-agers get high on laughing gas; their peers in North Carolina prefer the 150 h.p. bursts of acceleration that a bottle of nitrous oxide delivers when attached to a sedan's air filter...