Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, the record 27 million voters who went to the polls had given Giscard the narrowest possible victory margin. Just as the remarkably accurate polls had predicted, the outcome hinged on the swing of a few hundred thousand votes in the narrow, shifting center of France's sharply polarized political spectrum. Giscard won possession of the Elysée Palace for the next seven years with a bare 50.8% majority, or some 423,000 votes.* A small swing to the left might easily have made Mitterrand the winner, and given France its first left-wing government since Leon Blum...
...looks like the champ's champ. At 6 ft. and 200 lbs., he is built like a bull, with musculature that would make Atlas envious. He puts his 17-in. biceps. 27-in. thighs and 36-oz. bat to good use. When Ted Williams first watched Jackson swing, he said, "He's the most natural hitter I've ever seen." Williams, the hitter's hitter, has not been proved wrong...
...BENNETT CERF CITATION once again is given to the entire team for solving Embry Riddle on the Southern swing yet another year...
...almost dead even. At week's end one survey showed Giscard with a narrow 51% to 49% edge over Mitterrand in the decided votes, with 11% of the voters still undecided. The tightness of the race meant that the outcome could be decided by a few hundred thousand swing votes, most likely from the center of France's sharply divided political spectrum. Some observers speculated that the issue might be decided by the 2.5% of the voters who reside in France's overseas departments and territories, raising the bizarre possibility that a matter of crucial importance...
...more immediate headache for Park has been the fact that with final examinations in full swing, Crimson practice sessions have been somewhat haphazard. "We haven't had the whole team together since we won against Princeton," Park said yesterday. "Today I only have five players at practice. We have some guys who won't have practiced at all since the last ballgame...