Word: sway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fair Harvard holds sway...
Still, the election results are a disappointment. Conservative majorities now will apparently hold sway on both the City Council and the School Committee, with all the unfortunate effects on public policy and personnel appointments which that fact implies. The campaign was not as issue-oriented as we would have preferred and tried to ensure; one can only speculate as to what the outcome would have been had the rent control issue been brought home to the thousands who failed to register or stayed away from the polls. If there is a lesson to be learned, it is perhaps the necessity...
...Andulusian Farm hands and Catalonian textile workers were Anarchists until 1939--they dreamed of a collective society run by ordinary people and not by petty officials. The Socialists and Communists controlled Madrid during the Civil War, and the city knew no internal disorder. In Barcelona, where Anarchist workers held sway, there was revolution...
...have provided elaborate security arrangements for heads of state and government, and most still do not. The fashion of "pressing the flesh" U.S.-style has spread to other countries. But the traditional reserve and respect toward leaders in cultures older than that of the U.S. still often hold sway, as do moral and social restraints on aberrant individual behavior. Besides, foreign laws' often permit authorities to be tougher, locking suspects up arbitrarily when they think trouble may be brewing...
...their hands, waiting to prevent them from parading down past Bunker Hill Monument in front of the high school. These police are funded by the Commonwealth, ironically a source of authority Charlestown patriots fought and died for two hundred years ago. And the power of these police holds sway over Charlestown, creating an artificial calm around the buses at the high school...