Word: sway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disappointment. The legs-astride position of Prime Minister Nehru on the vast fence that runs through the world is of considerable importance to the U.S. If this great, learned and widely beloved man swings a few inches either way-toward the democratic West or toward Communism-his shift can sway the suspended minds of millions in India and throughout Asia. The future of the democratic West depends in large measure on whether it can succeed in winning the confidence and friendship of the Asian peoples whom, until recently, it ruled. Western policymakers have hoped that Nehru-a man with known...
...become urbanized and industrialized. "In most centers of population today, the 'strong' Protestant churches are typically in the suburbs, where they have about the same influence on the city's morals as the commuter has on its politics." Meanwhile, as the cities have come to sway the life of the rest of the country, the Roman Catholic Church has grown rapidly in influence. "One might almost write the story of that communion during the half-century in terms of the transformation of its state of mind from that of a minority to that of a majority church...
...picture, cried one farm editor last week, "is a one-sided political editorial . . . a clever attempt to use the movies to sway public opinion ... [it is] making history in the field of farm politics." Does it mean, he went on to ask, that the movie industry "is going to bat to knock the Government out of agriculture?" "The cartoon," said Satirist Sutherland, "was not aimed specifically at the . . . Brannan Plan, but if the shoe fits, they can wear...
...Harvard men are tip-top, natural, real he-men who displayed themselves as thoughtful...the best college group I've ever encountered in any of my American tours," the Canon said. "I'm sure I didn't sway all of them, but we parted with mutual respect...
...form of sending either funds to buy food or the foodstuffs themselves. Although Titoist Yugoslavia is a Communist dictatorship of the most unsavory sort, Yugoslavia is also a diplomatic oddity well worth preserving. She is a Communist nation that has escaped the Russian orbit. As such she may sway other Communist nations, such as China, to the view that there is a third relationship with Western nations besides clearcut alliance or clearcut opposition...