When a man was about to swing a bat at the cab, Russell hit the gas, the men moved away from the front of the truck, and we shook loose of a bad situation.

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Oram hit two sixes in 50 from 39 balls, but Sidebottom's swing was too much for the tail and man-of-the-match James Anderson's ninth wicket settled it.

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At the end the park is built, and the man's spirit rocks gently on a swing.

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That saw the momentum swing back as the Dragons forwards made the most of their extra man to carve out space for Sweeney to cross.

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"I don't usually do this for former Malone players, " said Ballymena man Syd, no doubt remembering the time I took a swing at him during an Ulster League match back in the Seventies.

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Here was a man who had refused, as if on principle, to swing at a bad pitch, and then applied that same steely resolve to his legal situation, at some cost to his dignity.

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With the mid-term elections only a few months away, he hit the campaign trail in late August for a more than 5, 000-mile swing into the western states that had captured his imagination as a young man.

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On the campaign trail, Romney supporters have been visibly energised by post-debate polls handing their man a nationwide bounce of as much as 12 points and suggesting that key swing states have tightened to a draw (even as they growl that opinion polls are a product of the liberal lie machine).

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But it also carries a message home to swing voters and to Liberal Democratic voters that Dave the right-winger is a big fan of a man who is still a liberal icon.

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