Word: sway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become part of American political mythology that Republicans are strongest in rural, underpopulated areas, while Democrats hold sway in urban, overpopulated places. According to that notion, Democrats would stand to gain by an equalizing of congressional districts. But several studies indicate that the opposite is probably true. In the 1962 elections, Republican candidates for the House won 48% of the national vote, but took only 40% of the seats. If they had gained as high a percentage of the seats as they did of the vote, there would now be 209 Republican Congressmen instead...
...quite a different matter when the proposal is to save money from his own state or district. Thus, upon hearing of McNamara's plans, there were the predictable yelps from almost all the affected Congressmen. They were heard by the folks at home, but would hardly sway Secretary McNamara...
While Kennedy was still President, Scranton sounded terribly convincing in his denials that he had any presidential ambition. But in the last few days he has been under increasing pressure to make a try, and some of his friends think that they can see him beginning to sway...
Nothing could sway his purpose...
FRITZ BULTMAN-Tibor de Nagy, 149 East 72nd. Twenty-two tentacled and leafy bronzes that sway on their bases like sturdy primordial plantlife, and 18 collages and drawings that help explain them...