Word: sway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true sports car, comfort, room and easy riding took a back seat to performance, i.e., roadability, sensitive steering, balance, fast acceleration and speed. Many of the qualities that made an excellent sports car (e.g., a short wheelbase and hard springing to cut down sway) also made the passenger feel as though he were being dragged along the road in a box. So American carmakers, sniffing the trend, set to work to see what they could...
...none of her queenly manner. Convinced that Vanderbilts were a breed apart, she sometimes described herself as "all alone in the house," when there were, in fact, 18 servants there with her. ("She was quality" explained one devoted retainer.) Despite increasing feebleness, she continued to maintain at least nominal sway over what remained of high society. At the 1949 opening of the Metropolitan Opera, she appeared in a wheelchair, persuaded to suffer this discomfort by a friend's remark that Queen Mary was upset because "so few were left to uphold traditions...
...from Goa, he sailed and walked through southern India, Malaya and the Celebes, then to Japan. His only equipment was a breviary, his Mass kit and a large parasol to protect him from the sun. He impressed Malay sultans and Japanese feudal barons with his poise, and he could sway the commonfolk by his zeal. In three months on the island of Amboina he baptized 1,200. Some of his missionary conquests were permanent-there are Christian Indians today whose ancestors he converted. Others, like his great Japanese mission, were later nullified by persecutions and royal decrees...
...destruction of "imperialism" (i.e., the democratic powers) is still the stated aim of Stalin. The purposes of Soviet policy, said Eisenhower, always remain the same: only the "plan for action is always undergoing revision." What is the current plan? Having brought 800 million people under its sway (up from 190 million only a few years ago), the Soviet Union now hopes that "the free world-crowded back on its own defenses-may be led to fall into factions and prey upon itself." The Communists could be counted on to exploit this possibility to the hilt-by wooing and threatening America...
...cars, Dodge has rounded off the old boxy body, while increasing seating and window space and retaining the "hat-room" that Chrysler Corp.'s Chairman K. T. Keller has always demanded. The new car has a new spring suspension system to cut sway on curves, a shorter wheelbase for greater maneuverability and a new system to make steering easier...