Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that he would like to see the Law Review adopt a "standard of publishability," as does the Yale Law Journal. He said that, personally, he would like to see a general swing toward "more creative legal writing," but that CCS was not ready to endorse full adoption of the Yale system...
...carnival. Children wander aimlessly over an asphalt globe littered with popsicle wrappers and half-eaten ice cream cones; a young girl's dark, wild-eyed apprehensive face is juxtaposed with the blurred bodies of other children being whirled through space by the long arms of a giant swing...
...that closed circle--in which case Cambridge is still like Berkeley, where you can check into a club and see Garcia and Saunders or Asleep at the Wheel on a Tuesday night with nothing to do. But no matter, Wright and the Boys are the finest country, western swing and country rock band in New England--hands down--and they're easy enough to listen to that weekend people up for drinking and dancing in the abstract always tend to ambie in and forget that what they're stomping to isn't too far from the same tradition that brought...
...liberal demagogue, ex-Senator Fred Van Ackerman. They are first censured, then pitied, then embraced by leading members of the printed and broadcast media who, confronted by the possibility that China will defeat Russia in their atomic contest, resort to whatever slogans desperation suggests to try to swing American public opinion behind the Russian cause. I describe this process step by step, as the media's panjandrums reluctantly but inexorably leave sanity behind and begin hysterically to raise the bugaboo of "the yellow peril...
...says. "I don't like that little thing coming back over the net." To keep it away, Connors hits every shot, especially his two-fisted backhand, with jackhammer force, pounding down an opponent with his nonstop attack. Small-bodied, he gets his power from outsize muscular shoulders and a swing calibrated to bang the ball on the rise, a technique first taught him by his mother, Gloria, and later stressed by Pancho Segura, the wily pro who has been Connors' instructor for the past six years. "Never let a ball come to you" is Segura's First Law. Charge...