Word: sway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is not true. According to the British Survey of Palestine in 1946, "...more than 70 per cent was state land," claimed by whatever conqueror held sway at the time. Who else has the right to this deserted land if not the Jews who returned to rebuild it, after 6000 of them sacrificed their lives in a war thrust upon them by the Arabs...
...basis for modern industry and brings about un--precedented economic progress with its promise of a material Utopia--abundance, the arguments go, will eradicate class conflicts and education and enlighten the masses so they will naturally agree with other classes on societal goals. Stability and prosperity will hold sway, and all members of society will accept the legitimacy of capitalism as the means of production...
...that Harvard is a community of intelligent adults, all interested in improving the quality of education here and that all members of the Harvard community should exert some influence on such a crucial decision as a revision of general education. No one thinks each freshman should have as much sway as Dean Rosovsky, but there are many who resent their total exclusion, or at least being totally uninformed about what is going...
...boat sails on, buffeted by the winds, tossed by the waters, drenched by the heavens-its inhabitants subject not only to the physical effects of the weather but to its metaphysical sway as well. People everywhere, including the U.S., confront the weather with marvelously confused feelings and attitudes. They love it as an unrivaled spectacle and fear it as an unrivaled destroyer. One day they curse the rain, the next they dream of walking in it barefooted with a lover. They study meteorology in school, while clinging to the conviction that the weather can be forecast on the basis...
...signs are everywhere, and proliferating. Some of them are trivial but telling; others seem to reflect yet another shift in the national mood and the social mode. If the signs are to be believed-and sociologists are sure to debate their significance-the cool-hip chic that has held sway since the 1960s, with its scorn of sentiment and its do-your-own-thing code, is giving way gradually to something suspiciously like a new romanticism. Says Psychologist Sol Gordon, professor of child and family studies at Syracuse University: "Americans no longer want to be cool; they want...