Word: sway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seek for rule, supremacy, and sway...
...Beverly D'An-gelo), one of them masturbates in front of her. Fey old Burgess Meredith, who has a fixation on his cat and an unearthly gleam in his eye, drags her upstairs to a spooky party. At night somebody overhead stamps and clanks until Raines' chandeliers sway like a leftover set from The Exorcist. But then, what did she expect for $400 a month...
...resentment against the Congress Party that is stronger than any since the party's formation after independence in 1947. Such sentiments are particularly noteworthy. existing despite an Indian economy that is healthier than it has beer in years. Still, Janata has little chance of gaining enough seats to sway government policies or insure against a re-enactment of the events since June 1975. With Desai, Narayan, Ram and others united in firm opposition to the current government Gandhi faces the most serious challenge to her rule since the election scandal that prompted the "emergency," but the grooming...
...many ways he was the most important man in the Senate, a constant reminder to his colleagues, an example of what they were supposed to be and so rarely were. And they recognized it. As a fellow senator once said, "His mere presence on the floor could sway votes." His colleagues knew that Hart was a man who voted his conscience, no matter what the political risks, and that his positions often represented those they should be taking...
...president. Four decades ago, Rose co-founded the American Labor Party; when it began to take on a Communist tint in 1944, he and other union leaders created the rival Liberal Party. The actual vote on the Liberal line was never large, but it was big enough to sway many elections. Republicans such as John Lindsay and Democrats Averell Harriman, Robert Wagner, John Kennedy, Daniel Moynihan and Jimmy Carter were all grateful recipients of Liberal endorsement. Rose liked to claim that his party existed only to advance good government, but he once acknowledged: "Frequently, when you do what is right...