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Undoubtedly the Nacionalistas will try to lure Macapagal into their party. But Macapagal, convinced that the country must develop a two-party system based on principles and not mere personalities, rebuffed his friend Magsaysay's own efforts to sway him through four years, and stuck with the Liberals in defeat, fighting its corrupt elements from within...
...patients are grown women. First sign of kuru is a slight trembling of the arms and legs on exertion. At this stage it subsides with rest. But a month to three months later the victim's head shakes, he begins to sway and stumble, and needs a walking stick for support. Within two months more, he is unable to stand or walk, has to be half-carried to tribal pig feasts. In this stage occur the outbursts which have caused kuru to be dubbed the laughing death. Speech gradually becomes more and more slurred until it is unintelligible. Nearly...
...Kamakovskys and one other host family were neither Communist nor anti-Communist, but right in the middle. Like many Yugoslavs, Lorenz said, they are "able to sway with the wind...
Returning to Kingston, Jamaica's capital, from a one-day outing at northwest-coast Montego Bay. 1,500 passengers aboard a Jamaica Government Railway excursion train were variously weary, tipsy, sleepy and raucous. Jammed into twelve ancient wooden coaches and two freight cars, they braced themselves against the sway; some slept in the baggage racks. Then, at the top of a long downhill run in the mountainous central part of the island, the brakes failed...
...hour's work every hour." In T.U.C. general council meetings he hacks through prejudice and opposition in true ham-handed Bevin fashion: rival leaders complain that he starts off practically every argument with the words, "My union will . . ." Along with belligerence he has shown a notable power to sway labor audiences-sometimes by what the London Sunday Times worriedly calls "feline capacity for destructive argument." When Cousins scornfully rejected Harold Macmillan's plea to address the T.U.C. last fall on wage restraint ("What does he think we are? A film festival?"), the congress loosed its loudest approving roar...