Word: swaying
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...first aftershock took place at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, with a magnitude of five on the Richter scale. Joseph M. Steim, a graduate student in Geology, said he was lying on a coach in Brookline when he felt a "very subtle" sway...
Although Reagan entered office hoping to govern largely through his Cabinet, the idea never flew very high. A few Cabinet members who are longtime Reagan intimates, notably Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Attorney General Smith, can slip in to see Reagan one-on-one and sometimes sway major decisions. But the Cabinet as a body is little more than a discussion group. It has met 35 times; issues are "round-tabled" (a White House buzz word) to give everyone a chance to sound off, and the President delivers what amounts to pep talks. But Reagan almost never announces...
...confront if he should have to take over for Reagan, and lunches alone with the President almost every week. At those sessions, says Meese, Bush offers advice on foreign policy and defense that Reagan values highly. But on domestic policy, the word in Washington is that the way to sway a presidential decision is to lobby Meese, Baker or Deaver, and maybe Stockman?but not Bush...
...could attain Mortality through Play. Man would play. He would develop his aesthetic senses and grasp Beauty, even the Sublime. The revolutions of the 19th century would not occur: "No privilege, no autocracy of any kind, is tolerable where taste rules, and the realm of aesthetic semblance extends its sway." The California hot-tub view of history...
...cookbook blends strands of history, geography and philosophy with dollops of legend and even a dash of the unsavory. This is particularly true of regional cookbooks, which have come into their own in recent years as increasingly sophisticated home chefs look beyond the standardized, urbanized formulas that hold stolid sway over many restaurant menus...