Word: swung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hush fell upon the hallway. Slowly, slowly, the scarred door swung open. Dave stood still, like a slasher-flick teenybopper about to get the axe. Destruction had ceased to be a good thing...
...heads all of the nation's intelligence agencies. He has a special fondness for clandestine operations. He holds Cabinet rank and sits on the National Security Council, and his advice and friendship are deeply valued by the President. The huge oaken doors of the hearing room swung shut...
...kids who were waiting helpless. They weren't looking where they were hitting, just holding their clubs up and bringing them down as quickly and in as many directions as they could. I heard moans, and saw a boy run from two cops holding his bleeding head as they swung at him. A furious rage came into me and my mood changed with the crack of one of the monstrous clubs. The sight of this--the fact of this--I would protest and protest with my presence. I hated what they were doing--and I hated Harvard for allowing...
...pitching pendulum swung to New York last night as Bob Ojeda matched finesse against the power of Nolan Ryan, pitching the Mets to a 5-1 victory over Houston for a split of the first two games of the National League playoffs...
...Cambridge conceit. It is part of a legacy from President Charles Eliot, who, starting in 1869, remade Harvard with a new emphasis on research and graduate study, and, among his faculty, strongly encouraged these scholarly pursuits. At Harvard, as at other institutions, the compass needles of many ambitious academics swung toward research. One result is that complaints about poor undergraduate teaching, lofty and inaccessible scholars, huge impersonal survey courses and cold university bureaucracies are heard on campuses from Maine to California. Like Harvard, most institutions of higher learning are wrestling with the question of how to teach undergraduates and what...