Word: swung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cameras blinked off on the first debate. In Manhattan on the morning after, Walter Mondale exuberantly flashed a double thumbs-up signal countless times to a crowd of tens of thousands that cheered as he led the Columbus Day parade up Fifth Avenue. In Cincinnati the next day, he swung a baseball bat after Ohio Governor Richard Celeste introduced him to another enthusiastic crowd as "the Louisville Slugger," a term the most zealous Democrat would not have dreamed of using before the debate in that Kentucky city. In Columbus later in the week, Mondale broke into a litany of sentences...
...Force has announced the cause of the Aug. 29 crash: human error. As the plane's movable wings were swung forward for a low-altitude test, Benefield apparently forgot to switch on a mechanism that shifts fuel among various tanks. The B-lA's center of gravity thus stayed toward the tail, causing the bomber to rear up at a 70° angle, stall and tumble earthward...
...tactical adjustment in the second half by Shattuck swung the momentum of the game into the Crimson's favor. Noticing that the Cornell defense had concentrated on Kenworthy and Catliff, creating a four-on-two situation, he instructed the Crimson forwards to push up further in attack, eliminating the option of passing back and also making the Big Red distribute the ball more quickly...
...highlights of the afternoon was the St. Pauli Girl Look-a-like Contest. The field of 13 candidates swung beer mugs and sang songs as the panel of judges, composed of representatives of the St. Pauli Girl Company and local Cambridge merchants looked...
...plains of western Wyoming are today a scarred moonscape of gray hills, but 50 million years ago they were mostly swampland, lush with exotic life. Primitive lemurs swung through palm trees, while the first horse, Eohippus, a short-legged creature about the size of a fox terrier, nibbled on grass beside the squirrelish Paramys...