A paunchy Minnie Mouse ambled past, swinging a gallon of water with a hunk of ice melting in it.
A pair of security guards in bulletproof vests walked past, swinging empty two-litre Coke bottles in their hands, filling up on their way to work.
That decline was anticipated, reflecting base effects resulting from past swings in global commodity prices, Mr. Trichet said, adding that the negative inflation rate would be short-lived.
I'm still in her embrace when Lisa walks past, swinging her Exceptional Adventures lunch box, and then Rachel, in a graying 2004 Mitzvah Day T-shirt and shorts.
Through the gate we pass a relatively modest area with an old stone table ("Five years later we're still looking for the right chairs"); then move on past swings, rows of loungers, dining tables, statues, lawns, rose gardens and two infinity pools ("I never go in the pool unless the dog's going in with us").
Here, people live mired in the past, swinging hoes and hoisting water, centuries behind in infrastructure, yet also suffering the aftereffects of a more recent past -- the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
It padded left, past the swing set, and headed into the trees.
For another, most Americans still think the president cares about people like them: a measure that may sound woolly, but which has proved powerful in the past among swing voters.
The clarinet players Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw both drew from cantorial traditions, however obliquely, and there are many other examples past the swing era, including the sprawling Masada project initiated by the avant-garde saxophonist and composer John Zorn in the early 1990s.
It has been the way of the Football Association in the recent past to swing from one extreme to another in choosing the kind of manager, and therefore the kind of regime, that the organisation thinks is best suited to achieving success.
