Word: sway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assume the feasibility of this new Continental power--with Paris as its capital and with half of Africa under its sway--both London and Moscow will try to prevent its emergence. The decisive stroke to that end would be to separate Germany from France, and this goal can be achieved through a summit meeting...
...Federal Trade Commission was harder to sway. Last May it ordered Drug Research to stop claiming that Regimen could cause the loss of a predetermined number of pounds. After the FTC order, CBS carried Regimen spots for 13 weeks last spring and summer, then shed them. NBC continued them, mostly on Dave Garroway's Today show. But last week, 17 months after the FTC had complained that "those taking [Regimen] cannot lose weight without dieting," New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan seized a truckload of Regimen TV film commercials, books and financial records to determine...
...Milwaukee, Averell Harriman, New York's ex-governor and onetime (1956) presidential hopeful, startled a group of local Democratic politicos with an announcement: "If I could appoint the next President, I would pick Humphrey." The partisans of Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey were delighted (although Harriman can sway few of New York's 114 convention votes) and flabbergasted: they had assumed that because Harry Truman was backing the candidacy of Fellow-Missourian. Stuart Symington, Harriman would naturally fall in line with his great friend and onetime sponsor Truman. ¶ Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy, co-chairman...
...south. The dances were as varied as the Arabic, Malayan and Spanish ethnic influences that formed them: a Bontoc war dance had loinclothed dancers running and bounding about in a blur of flailing shields and spears; a wedding-party dance had a suggestion of Spain in the gentle sway of hip and shoulder. In one of the evening's high points the company performed a traditional pole dance, stepping with unhurried grace through a grid of clashing poles clapped together in an accelerating syncopated rhythm. The dancers-many of them in their teens-showed a simple, unsophisticated enthusiasm that...
Cornell's line is probably the best in the League and will be facing a quick and strong Crimson line that lacks only experience. If the experience gained in the UMass and Bucknell games is enough, Harvard should hold the sway...