Word: swung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Berry and John Tolmie lost a close match to Godman and Rich Lees. They dropped the first set but took the second, with both tiebreakers going to 7-5. In the tense third set the advantage swung back and forth, as both teams had trouble holding serve, but Godman and Lees hung on to win, 7-5. Crimson, 7-2 at Palmer Dixes Tennis Center...
Then strength and her adventurer's enchanted luck took over. She swung her ice ax, sunk it into the snow face and performed a perfect self-arrest, just the way they teach it in climbing school. She ditched the oxygen bottle and found her Sherpa. The only thing she could see by this time was the blue of his boots, so she followed the moving blue blobs. The next day her eyes were swollen shut...
...first time I hit the pipe, I thought, 'Wow! Home run!' " says Rodgers, a beautiful but hardened 29-year-old former dealer who is pregnant with her eighth child. Beneath her gold-tinged curls, a small metal plate covers a hole smashed in her skull with a board swung by an angry boyfriend. Her dark eyes glitter when she speaks of crack. Then she looks weary, confused and angry. "When I came here, I figured I'd get a place to sleep and some food, and then split and get an abortion and get high once in a while...
...women, Quayle's significance to thecampaign declined. Two-thirds of the women polledsaid the selection of the handsome senator rumoredto have been chosen for his appeal to the oppositesex did not affect their choice. Among men, 51percent said Quayle did not matter. Women who wereinfluenced by Bush's choice swung almost entirelyto the Democrats, with only 2 percent sayingQuayle increased their support of the Republicanticket. Five percent of the men said Quayleboosted their support of Bush and 44 percent saidthe Indiana senator pushed them towards Dukakis...
...miniseries progressed, the focus swung away from politics to the steamy sex scandal of Crane's relationship with Fallon and their tendency towards kinky sexual behavior. Favorite Son provided one of the most explicit sex scenes I've ever seen on television. It features Koslowski, clad in push-up bra and garter belt, perched on the bed as she tries to seduce the FBI agent investigating the case. She produces two ribbons from her bureau and ties them around her wrist, then raises her hand to the bedpost moaning, "Tie me up." Bad politics, it seems, has concomitant vices...