Word: sway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...president of the 81,000-member United Federation of Teachers, he not only leads the nation's largest union local but also holds considerable sway over the country's biggest local school system. During New York City's fiscal crisis, Shanker has emerged as the toughest and most intransigent of its municipal labor leaders, backed by an equally determined rank and file that deeply believe in the simple rubric he has taught them: "Power is a good thing. It is better than powerlessness...
...strategy applied to fund-raising is tinged by psychological considerations. Thompson feels that a campaign gains momentum if it can already boast of a donation when it goes into full sway...
...like heterosexuality, is "learned behavior"?the product of subtle interaction between a child and the significant people around him. Only birds and lower mammals are rigidly programmed to mate with the opposite sex. The higher one goes on the mammalian scale, the more the organism is under the sway of learning rather than inherited factors. But that does not really explain anything either. Scientists do not yet know how an individual creates a heterosexual or homosexual value system...
...next afternoon, Nov. 28, 1974, while residents of Hollister were sitting down to their Thanksgiving Day dinners, the earth began to sway and rumble beneath them. The brief 1-to 2-sec. quake measured 5.2 magnitude and did little damage. But its impact still reverberates through the world of seismology. The accurate forecast of the Hollister temblor was a dramatic demonstration that scientists are on the verge of being able to predict the time, place and even the size of earthquakes...
...afternoon, and San Francisco's evening rush hour has already begun. Thousands of cars are inching along the highways; cable cars, buses, BART trains and ferries are packed with people. Suddenly the earth begins to tremble and sway, accompanied by a roar that some people liken to the sound of a hundred freight trains. Huge cracks open in streets and sidewalks. Shaken loose by the violent vibrations, tons of glass and ornamental stonework tumble onto the streets, crushing pedestrians and automobiles. Many older buildings collapse completely. Chinatown's famed Grant Street becomes a death...