Word: swaying
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Later in the day McGovern would tour some of the polling places in Manchester to encourage his workers and sway any undecided voters of there were any. As the returns began to come in over the television that evening, and his percentage of the vote rose from 25 to 30 to 32 to 35 and finally to 37 per cent, there was jubilation in the halls of Hojo's Motor Lodge. The Senator came down at about 10:45 p.m. to make a brief speech in the jammed ballroom, thanking his hundreds of volunteers and proclaiming a moral victory...
...positions (following his dictum that "the gun must never be allowed to control the party"), Chou has compromised. The soldiers are under pressure to "modestly learn from the people," as one slogan puts it, but they have not been levered out of the party committees, where they still hold sway over the civilians...
Neither the fortuitous accident which brought him in touch with his Crimson reviewer, nor his recent entrance into the literary pantheon, seemed to discomfit him much. After remarking that the Lampoon headquarters where he had once held sway were much plusher than the Crimson's game rooms, he spoke freely of future plans, in a light-timbred voice which unexpectedly erupted into husky laughter...
...themselves, the students could not sway or topple an Egyptian government; Sadat sarcastically retorted to their demands for war by suggesting that they all join the army. But the President was also aware that the protesters were symptomatic of national frustration after nearly five years of no war, no peace, and that other Egyptians were having the same sort of doubts...
...reason is that the Soviet navy has asserted its sway over the ocean almost by default. The British fleet, which once ruled the waves east of Suez, began to withdraw its forces in 1966. The Russians, meanwhile, have gradually created a squadron of ten or more ships on regular patrol, occasionally including nuclear submarines. During the recent war, there were 15 ships in the Soviet flotilla, including two guided missile cruisers...