Word: sway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder how many of those who have been screaming about the Supreme Court ruling have bothered to PRAY about the situation. And I wonder if they realize that it might not have been so simple for an irreligious minority group to sway The Six, if more Americans had been exercising the privilege of prayer a little more frequently...
Last week the vastly overblown sway of the great stars seemed to have been dealt a strong but reasonable blow. Hurting after blowing $30 million on Cleopatra in Rome, 20th Century-Fox was in no mood to put up with fresh indignities in Hollywood. First, they fired Marilyn Monroe for her spectacular absenteeism from Something's Got to Give, and replaced her with Lee Remick. But then the studio had to contend with Co-Star Dean Martin (salary: $300,000), who refused the substitution. O.K., said Fox; no public apology, no Marilyn. But, predicted one studio executive at week...
...simply another way of "giving up the struggle" against imperialism. He insisted that Albania was not "throwing mud" on the Soviet Union,* but that it was Khrushchev who was libeling Albania, "just like the reactionary bourgeois press," by describing it as a country where "terror and murder held sway." To Khrushchev's charge that there was no "democracy" within the Albanian Communist Party, Hoxha insolently replied: "Better watch your own affairs...
...Europeans, 12,000 Asians and 2,780,000 Africans. Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, who had helped jail Banda two years ago on the ground that a "massacre" of whites was being planned, flew in to help prop up his United Federal Party. Welensky made little effort to sway the 100,000 Africans whose literacy and income qualified them to vote in the "lower roll." Instead, he directed his appeal to the Asians, who were combined with the Europeans in the "upper roll." Cocky Dr. Banda gave Welensky a derisive welcome, noting that "he will now have to take...
...into the flow of Elizabethan iambs. But Shakespearean effects can also be heightened by outdoor production. During one festival performance of Macbeth, deep grey thunderheads compiled themselves overhead as Birnam wood moved to high Dunsinane hill; the branches of the plane trees around and above the stage began to sway and whip; and when Macbeth finally faced Macduff on the ramparts, it was a battle fought in lightning and horizontal rain...