Word: swayings
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...Rome, where strip shows are forbidden, natives find the best show is to sit at a sidewalk café on the elegant Via Veneto and sip espresso while Italian beauties sway by. There are other forms of culture too: Carmen, Bohème and Aida, with live camels, horses and elephants, will be given on an outdoor stage in the Baths of Caracalla (July 2-Sept...
...none of the brashness and slickness that made him a leading figure in Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal brain trust. He talked so fast and so long for two days that he confused and angered the committee; he insisted that he had "a perfect right" to try to sway the FPC to grant a license to Midwestern Gas Transmission Co., a Tennessee Gas subsidiary, for a $52 million pipeline...
...Consent, former New York Timesman Allen Drury expertly tells what a fascinating story Washington can be for these men who cover it. But Drury also paints a devastating picture of a majority of the Washington press corps (which is heavily liberal Democratic) toning its leads and its emphasis to sway opinion for the people it considers "liberal" and against those it looks upon as not liberal enough. Many of the Washington corps, including Drury's former boss, Scotty Reston, think that Drury's broad brush is unfair, but it covers enough truth to make some Washington newsmen squirm...
Throughout, he must belong. Probably not since the sway of the ancient theocracies has a ruling class had such influence over the child mind. A well-flogged lordling of Dr. Keate's Eton, a Dickens character sniveling in Dotheboys Hall, or even that refugee from the U.S. prep school, Holden Caulfield, would shed a tear for the winners in the Russian school system. It is a system destined to convert the countenance of a child into the Gromyko mask of panslavery...
...assume the feasibility of this new Continental power--with Paris as its capital and with half of Africa under its sway--both London and Moscow will try to prevent its emergence. The decisive stroke to that end would be to separate Germany from France, and this goal can be achieved through a summit meeting...