Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the Great Depression Americans flocked to amusement parks to hear swing bands and to moviehouses to watch battalions of Busby Berkeley chorines sing We're In the Money. Hard times, it seems, called for escape. For half a century, TIME'S People section, with its glimpses of the famous and infamous, has offered readers escape from news of assassinations, wars and economic woes. Today, though recession is crimping the style of many of their subjects, Staff Writer Gina Mallet and Reporter-Researcher Amanda Macintosh, our People section's Sherlock Holmes and Watson, carry on the department...
...Lockheed as the U.S.'s largest defense contractor (total 1974 sales: about $2 billion), but the order comes at a time when the company needs a long-term contract to pick up the slack caused by a dropoff in production of the costly ($16 million each) F-lll swing-wing fighter-bomber. The YF-16 also offers General Dynamics an opportunity to polish up a reputation that was scarred by the cost overruns and mechanical problems that clouded the F-111 in the late 1960s...
...think that everybody is going to have to go through that. I think that the pendulum is swinging. [With Watergate, it] has swung over where everybody wants something disclosed. I think that it will swing back to a central position...
...Ruth's full free swing was being copied more and more, and so was his type of bat, thinner in the handle and whippier, in principle something like a golf club. (Early in his career Ruth used a massive 52-ounce bat, but this slimmed down as Ruth himself ballooned.) Strategy and tactics changed. A strikeout heretofore had been something of a disgrace--reread "Casey at the Bat." A batter was supposed to protect the plate, get a piece of the ball, as in the cognate game of cricket. In Ruth's case, however, a strikeout was only a momentary...
Back from a disappointing 2-2 western road swing, the Harvard hockey team returns to the friendly confines of Watson Rink tonight to take on Boston College. Face-off time...