Word: swung
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...ethnic Russians living as minorities in various republics. As the Congress of People's Deputies meeting approached, Soyuz and conservatives generally seemed to be gaining influence with a frustrated Gorbachev. That should have been no surprise. The reformists' strength had always resided in an evanescent popular mood that has swung from euphoria to near despair as political breakdown has been mirrored in economic chaos and shortages of everything. The conservatives, in contrast, command the hard, physical tools of power: troops, tanks and vertushki, the direct telephone lines to the central authorities that are the lifeline of the government bureaucracy...
...habits die hard and when the activists began their "die-in" on a Boston street, the camera-toting cops swung back into action...
...pendulum has swung. In some quarters nowadays, the name of the man who sailed the ocean blue in 1492 is a downright dirty word. Russell Means, the Native American activist, says the explorer "makes Hitler look like a juvenile delinquent." In a new revisionist biography, The Conquest of Paradise (Knopf; $24.95), author and environmentalist Kirkpatrick Sale portrays Cristobal Colon (to name Columbus correctly) as a grasping fortune hunter, a mediocre sailor and an incompetent governor of Spain's New World colonies, whose legacy to the Indians he "discovered" was rapine, servitude and death...
...forget that. But we've got to do something to restore the normal tension between greed and fear, which admittedly got out of balance in the 1980s but has now -- not-withstanding last week's stock market up-tick -- swung too far toward fear. A few more recommendations...
Harvard bounced back five minutes later when Vukonich took a Donato feed and swung around the net to stuff the puck past High...