Word: swung
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Jesse enthusiastically had his watch halfway off before one of the schedulers rushed the pulpit in the name of modern political decency. The scheduler swung up the steps at the left of the small riser, but he was intercepted by the Reverend Thompson. Thompson had a weight advantage over the scheduler and placed himself between the frantic man and his mission...
...contra crisis swung the spotlight back on a half-forgotten drama, it also shifted public attention back to Ronald Reagan, who had seemed to be fading from view as the primary campaigns accelerated. Like his aides who now stand indicted, the President remained stubbornly defiant as his contra policy came close to collapsing. Although earlier in the week he assiduously lobbied leaders on Capitol Hill to renew the funding for his "Freedom Fighters," Reagan's attitude toward Congress and the contras remained unchanged. Former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, said the President, was guilty only of "not telling Congress everything...
Dukakis' last major campaign appearance in Massachusetts was last Tuesday, when he swung through North Cambridge and other parts of the solidly Democratic Eighth Congressional District. Since then, the governor has been airborne, stopping in the Super Tuesday states of Texas, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, and even touring the West Coast...
...Kiehl won the downhill and a pair of strong Austrians, Anita Wachter and Sigrid Wolf, took the combined (a parlay of downhill and slalom) and the / super-G (a compressed, curvier downhill). Walliser managed a bronze in the combined and Figini a silver in the super-G, but interest swung to their teammate Brigitte Oertli (two silvers) and to Canada's new hope, Karen Percy. Skiing with a broken left thumb, she took a bronze in the downhill, scraped out a fourth in the combined with her left pole flopping uselessly behind her as she ran the slalom, then took...
...presidential campaign also swung intoIowa's churches yesterday, as Rep. Jack Kemp(R-N.Y.) sought support in fundamentalistchurches, He made it clear he is not conceding theevangelical Christian vote to former televisionevangelist Pat Robertson. Both are courtingconservatives and hoping for a third-place finishin Monday's straw vote of GOP activists...