Word: sway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stalin's defeat in Korea would not prevent him from trying again-whenever he saw an opportunity to extend the Kremlin's sway. But Korea would almost certainly make Stalin more cautious about further adventures. Korea had looked like a sure thing, and it had blown up in Stalin's face...
...urged the braccianti (landless peasants) of Molinella to defy a Communist strike order. He was waylaid and slugged. Red bullyboys tried vainly to browbeat his mother into signing a paper declaring her son a bastard. A month later in Rome, Martoni made an impassioned speech before fellow Socialists, helped sway them toward secession from the CGIL...
...conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). This is a slightly different Falstaff from the one NBC listeners have just heard from Arturo Toscanini (TIME, April 10). Orchestrally, it lacks the carefulness and cleanness of Toscanini's performance, and Conductor Rossi allows his singers, all excellent, more swagger and sway. But stylistically it is all of a piece and just as valid. Recording: good...
Triangular Trade. After some man-to-man bargaining, Prí offered Pawley the concession if he would pay $1,500,000 to the near-bankrupt trolley company's bondholders and get buses rolling in place of the sway-backed trams. But when Pawley went home to line up financial backing, no fewer than eleven U.S. banks, including the Export-Import Bank, turned down the deal...
...Then the result was little better than partisan cartooning, e.g., a soapbox snarl at the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, titled Reception in Miami. But when he chose to paint subjects instead of targets-the grimy street corners of downtown America, a littered store window, a peddler's sway-backed nag or a weary tombstone cutter-Levine had something of his own to say. And he said it with energy...