Word: swaying
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Kunstler kept stressing the trial's political angle in court, too. Later that week, he interrupted the dull jury selection with a charge--an insinuation, really--that FBI agents had tried to sway local news coverage of the event. The spectators--largely Indian and all Watergate-conscious--sat up in their seats when they heard this. But the judge and one of the prosecutors couldn't understand what Kunstler was so riled about...
...nation with a long history of democracy: the military moved into power there last June. Peru and Bolivia have also been ruled by the new type of general, and Chile in the wake of September's bloody repression of President Allende's government, has fallen under the sway of the gorillas. Venezuela is still technically a democracy, but there have been military rumblings there also...
...seek to undermine, subvert, destroy the so-called "open conflict" of competitive ideas which universities pretend to be. Even in those sub-sections of the major universities--Law, Medicine and Business Colleges, for example--where straightforward economic self-perpetuation of the upper class seems to an outsider to hold sway as an unquestioned Gospel, great efforts still are made to propagate the fiction of true ethical and intellectual freedom...
...Neill. As majority leader in the House of Representatives, O'Neill is a crucial figure in any drive to impeach Nixon. He is the second most influential man in the House--only Speaker of the House Carl Albert has greater authority--and his support for impeachment would sway wavering congressmen to join the impeachment drive...
...scholars in his ability to express complex issues in a comprehensible manner. In his new book, Reischauer has chosen to advocate the modification of our educational system to produce individuals who consider themselves to be members of an international society. If others have failed by dint of words to sway the public on this issue, Reischauer may succeed...