Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daily contact with TIME'S 21 bureaus outside the U.S. He requests and monitors dispatches from abroad, determines each week's assignments and edits the section's wide range of material. When the news about Brandt reached Elson, he had just returned from a two-week swing through five Western European countries. As the World editor does periodically, he visited TIME correspondents and met with leaders of European politics, business, the church and the press. He talked with, among many others, Italy's Prince Nicolo Pignatelli, the oilman who is president of Gulf Italiana; Spain...
...last achieved in 1941 by Ted Williams. But last week Jackson, the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1973, limped to the dugout at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium with a painful nerve in his right leg. Saying "My leg may hurt, | but I can still swing the wood," Jacks son, one of the most feared hitters in I the game, saw his average sink to a still sizzling .390. He acknowledged I a little sadly, "I probably won't hit - .400 this season, but I'm still the greatest in the game...
...Mackey walked, but the Crusader catcher kept Holy Cross starter and pro prospect Butch Bornstein from walking to the dugout when he let the ball escape him after Dave St. Pierre's third strike swing, allowing St. Pierre to reach first safely...
...Maguire for professional misconduct under political pressure, this terse paragraph appeared in the Short Circuits column of the April 14 Boston Globe: "Former Rep. Peter Cloherty of Brighton, a 'public relations' consultant for Maguire Associates engineering firm, is using Congressman Thomas P.O'Neill's name in his endeavor to swing a big contract for his client...
Woman do need sensitive, respectful treatment in gynocological and obstetrical matters. A sudden, sharp swing in the medical profession from near-total repression of sexual information to a "let's let it all hang out, girls" attitude is likely to furnish us with neither sensitivity nor respect. More dangerous, insistance on a particularly female diagnosis for a medical complaint could mask other unrelated medical problems. Or it could drive women from doctors because of their fear of not being taken seriously--which is one of the unfortunate situations the reforms were meant to correct...