Word: sway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Paul died in 1964 and Constantine graduated to the throne, many feared that the young King, who has said about his family that "we always used to work as a team," would be under the sway of the Queen Mother. But young Constantine soon showed that he had considerable toughness. He decided that his job was not for a puppet or a figurehead, and that he would have to reign as his family had before him?within the constitutional rights of the monarchy but with the strength and determination of a modern king. In fact, the Greek King...
...questioning, Getty appealed over and over again to pride, looking ahead to the moment when the jury retires to begin its deliberations. "You are going to reach a verdict out of the depths of your own mind and conscience, aren't you? You wouldn't let someone sway you?" Prosecutor Martin needs twelve unanimous jurors to win a verdict; Defender Getty needs only one stubborn holdout to hang the jury-and retrials often favor the defendant...
JOAN SUTHERLAND SINGS NOEL COWARD (London). The Australian prima donna has no chance for operatic fireworks but lights little sparklers from Conversation Piece, Bitter Sweet and three later musicals, while Noel himself makes a veddy charming bow (/'// Follow My Secret Heart). The orchestra is lush; the violins sway with the nostalgic waltzes that are light years away from today's Broadway...
Though the proliferation of jukeboxes and discotheques has winnowed the ranks of the cocktail pianists since their heyday in the 1950s, most U.S. cities have at least one velvet-lined cave where night-lifers go to swig and sway to their favorite mood merchants. Among the best of them...
...polemics were printed and circulated throughout the Holy Roman Empire. By 1521, when he was invited by Emperor Charles V to answer the charges against him at the Diet of Worms, the unknown friar had become a folk hero. There, Luther once more insisted that only Biblical authority would sway him. "My conscience is captive to the Word of God," he told the court. "I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither honest nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen...