Word: swung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Heat. In the craziest of New England weather weeks, the temperature swung from freezing to tropical in a matter of days, but in the first hours of vacation, when a baby blizzard struck Cambridge, students were left out in the cold with their radiators turned off to save energy and money. The College should take pity on its shivering students and leave the heat on if the temperature warrants...
...Someone threw a fire bomb inside, and the crowd yelled, "Roast them! Burn them alive!" The Freedom Riders staggered off the smoking bus, and as one, Hank Thomas, hit the ground, reeling from fumes, a white man asked solicitously, "Are you O.K.?" And then took a baseball bat and swung at Thomas as hard as he could...
...door of the office swung open, I saw Kennedy behind his desk with a dark face reading TIME. "Where'd you get this story about me posing for the cover of Gentlemen's Quarterly? It's all a lie." I really did not know anything about the story, I stammered, but would find...
...Regardless of how much they get beaten up, people are under the impression that they are on their side," he says. Vallely then swung his support to Kennedy...
...that point, with the crowd at a frenzied peak and holding a commanding 15-9 lead, Harvard had swung the pendulum in its favor and looked ready to upset the 22nd-ranked team in the nation...