Word: sway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tactful Neville Chamberlain therefore told the House of Commons: "The messages of President Roosevelt, so fairly and yet so persuasively made, showed how the voice of the most powerful nation in the world could make itself heard across 3,000 miles of ocean and sway the minds of men in Europe...
...Maryland last fortnight, Postmaster Harry A. Coy, 35. of Havre de Grace, hometown of Senator Tydings, was kicked out of office in apparent reprisal for his support of Senator Tydings. Last week a thoroughgoing purge of other Tydings friends on the Federal payrolls in Maryland was in full sway. Past Postmaster Coy drove his car out to the Susquehanna River bank, put a bullet through his brain...
...cake and have it too: makes gay, simpering fun of itself while it strives after a light-as-thistledown charm. a snows-of-yesteryear nostalgia. Its lyrics are mock and merry-andrew, its tunes (out of such Victorian composers as Offenbach, Balfe and Gounod) softly glide and sway, recalling gaslit ballrooms, old-fashioned gardens with gazebos...
...ried, his passion lingers with still delusive sway...
...cupboard bare. For three weeks, while drowned animals were buried and wrecked cages repaired, the park had no revenue. Animals were first cut to half rations, then to one third. Ribs began to show. Anna May sickened on mildewed hay. Babe the polar bear became too listless to sway. The Zoo's gaunt camel was too weak to get up off its knees. Said Manager William J. Richards, who had worked a year without salary to make ends meet: "The flood was what broke the camel's back. . . . We don't need to balance our budget...