Word: swung
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...emotional pendulum has swung back a bit. While doctors now accept the fact that new illnesses and new potentially devastating strains of familiar diseases like influenza will continue to threaten humans, they also know that adopting the right strategy can contain the damage. In this view, the fight against infectious disease is neither a leisurely war of attrition nor a desperate retreat. Instead, it looms as a protracted guerrilla conflict in which reliable intelligence and rapid reaction are the keys to survival. The enemy could strike anywhere at any time. Only when a disease outbreak has been contained can doctors...
While many Southerners call themselves "yellow dog Democrats," meaning they would sooner vote for a yellow dog than any Republican, the region has gradually swung behind the GOP in presidential elections...
While many Southerners call themselves "yellow dog Democrats," meaning they would sooner vote for a yellow dog than any Republican, the region has gradually swung behind the GOP in presidential elections...
Dukakis' style swung from lighthearted ("...of course, if I knew anything about presidential politics, I wouldn't be here right now") to earnest counsel to get involved...
Outside the city's dozens of nightclubs and honky-tonks, violence and corruption ruled the streets. Inside, in the back rooms, there was illicit gambling and who knew what else. But up on the bandstands, the jazz musicians of Kansas City swung through it all. Absorbed, imperturbable, they played within a sort of bubble of purity: theirs were the only disinterested passions in town. Or so it seems in Robert Altman's new film, Kansas City, set in the 1930s heyday of "Boss" Tom Pendergast, when an extraordinary concentration of jazz talent flourished in the city (and a wide-eyed...