Word: swayings
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...consensus stems from the obvious fact that never in recent political history has one man held such sway over a major American political party. At Atlantic City, L.B.J. was in total charge. His political cake was like the one given him on his 56th birthday- big enough both to have...
...ominous echo of Stennis' outcry came from deep inside the Congo itself, where rebel leaders of the Red-backed National Liberation Committee now hold sway over vast portions of the lawless hinterland. For weeks the rebels had been warning Belgium that any use of white officers to lead Tshombe's bedraggled troops would lead to the slaughter of the hundreds of Belgian civilians. Now the committee's commander in Stanleyville, "General" Nicholas Olenga, was making threats about Americans as well. "We are a sovereign and independent country, which has an internal war on its hands...
...Fifteen years ago, says French Art Expert Maurice Rheims, "no one except King Farouk would have thought of buying Gallé vases." But tastes change. The art-nouveau revival dates from 1952, when London's Victoria and Albert Museum organized a great retrospective exhibit. In Germany, where the sway of the Jugendstil (as art nouveau was called there and in Austria) had been total and the counterblow of the 1920s most radical, rediscovery began in 1958 with a big show at Munich's Haus der Kunst. In the U.S. the comprehensive 1960 "Art Nouveau" exhibit at New York...
Whether 40 million Russians could sway their leaders was a dubious question. But at least it was a question worth asking. After all, nobody like the U.N.'s Thant had ever before put them to the test...
...church stands strangely inside a clover leaf of the expressway near Florence, and serves as a spiritual halfway house for travelers. "The general form is that of a tent," explains Michelucci, who designed its sway-backed curves with architectural as well as spiritual freedom in mind. He spent hours daily on the job, changing details in concrete and carpentry...