Word: sway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classic demagogue swayed the crowd through oratory. Polls sometimes suggest a kind of demagogy in reverse: the crowd seems to sway the politicians through the polls. One expects those who seek high office to speak out with courage and conviction, to teach the people, to lead. Instead, the candidates seem increasingly guided by pollsters-semivisible oracles who claim to know what millions of U.S. voters think and feel. How many Americans have ever talked to a pollster, or even seen one? Yet, pollsters have acquired huge and growing power...
...wrote Kierkegaard, describing the guilt that floods the dark night of the soul. Another Scandinavian, Ingmar Bergman, plays out that quasi-religious concept by examining one soul in the blackness just before dawn-the Hour of the Wolf, "when nightmares are most palpable,' when ghosts and demons hold sway...
There would be a removal of foreign military troops or bases in the area and there would be no alliance by nations in the area with outside blocs, either Eastern or Western. The principle of self-determination would hold sway internally. The nations concerned . . . should be assisted in achieving economic development cooperatively on a regional basis...
...conflict "not alone with the Communists, but with a strong sense of Vietnamese nationalism" that has been captured by the guerrillas. Since military power is ineffective in the face of this intangible force, the U.S. should accept Viet Cong domination in those areas where the enemy now holds sway, and contest only those parts of the country that are controlled by the government or are necessary to assure the security of American forces. In many respects, this strategy closely resembles General James Gavin's enclave theory. Galbraith maintains, however, that his proposal differs in calling for active patrolling beyond...
...most of the 3,000 people of Salaparuta took refuge on the slopes just below their hilltop town. There, among their goats and grapevines, they waited in the chilly night for the danger to pass. At 3 a.m. the earth rolled again, at first gently, then with a sickening sway. Before their eyes, Salaparuta crumbled apart like a child's sand castle. Within 30 seconds, the nine-century-old vineyard town was little more than dust. Left standing over the moonlit rubble was a solitary sentinel, a church tower, whose bell was jolted by the earth's angry...