Word: sway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another brother, a short, fortyish bachelor named Ngo Dinh Can, controls central Viet Nam from the family's hometown of Hué. He has his own network of secret police, holds sway over the government's provincial chiefs in the region. Reputedly owner of vast tracts of land, he is wealthy, contributed heavily to the construction of a new cathedral in Hue where Brother Ngo Dinh Thuc is now Archbishop...
...regret the abortive Suez invasion only as a failure of nerve and not of policy. The Labor left wing is also antiMarket in order to retain Brit ain's unilateral capacity to act; it is the left's impression that Britain is still morally powerful enough to sway world opinion, particularly by giving up the atom bomb to shame everybody else into disarming. When Laborite Roy Jenkins forcefully argued that Britain ought to go into the Common Market to end the division of Europe that has spawned three wars in the last 100 years, he was interrupted...
...Tune. Linner dispatched his aide, Robert K. A. Gardiner, a Ghanaian by nationality, on a special mission to Stanleyville, where Antoine Gizenga holds sway over Eastern province and claims to be the only true heir of the late Patrice Lumumba. Gardiner persuaded Gizenga that it was safe to send a delegation to Leopoldville for the reopening of Parliament. In Katanga, the copper-rich secessionist province that stubbornly refused to share its wealth with the rest of the Congo, Linner's other U.N. emissary, Francis Nwokedi of Nigeria, was hard at work on the Deputies of stubborn "President" Moise Tshombe...
...lobbyists: "Leave the Democrats to us. You go after the Republicans." O'Brien figured he could twist Democratic arms by invoking patronage promises and the pressures of party loyalty; labor was delighted at the chance to prove to the Administration that it has the power to sway Republican votes. Last week the strategy worked perfectly...
Carnival's whole atmosphere comes charmingly to life at the very outset when, at dusk, first one trouper and then another straggles onstage. As the stage fills with proprietors and performers and roustabouts, as tents go up and booths slide into place and flags flap and sway, the bright lights come on, the lilting music soars, and the multicolored mongrel troupe parades. Then Marco the Magnificent appears, and the gal he forever two-times; then Paul, the lamed, embittered puppeteer, and the pal he forever snaps at. Soon, a wispy, skinny-limbed, wide-eyed Lili (Anna Maria Alberghetti) turns...