Word: swayings
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Armed with Saud money, Hussein hurried back to Jordan, began lining up Bedouin sheiks to sway the Bedouin troops, who comprise nearly half the Jordanian army. He gave them gifts, obtained jobs for sheiks' sons. To offset the proCommunists' control of the street mobs, he approached leaders of the fanatically anti-Western (and antiCommunist) Moslem Brotherhood, and his agents supplied black market weapons bought with Saudi money. Often the young King drove out for secret, late-night meetings with chosen leaders on lonely roads outside Amman. Hussein picked Zerka for his showdown because a crack Bedouin regiment...
...joined the new Social Credit movement, led it to two straight election victories. He built roads, lured industries, cut the provincial debt and this year installed his own form ot giveaway: a $28 tax forgiveness for every homeowner. Bennett has masterminded Social Credit's plans to win national sway by nominating as many as 170 candidate: in Canada's 265 constituencies...
...isolated railroad station of San Antonio de Arenales and set to work transforming the prairie. The job was not done easily. Water flowed into their wells from a, huge underground lake, but even with irrigation, wheat, their customary crop, refused to flourish. The revolutionary Pancho Villa still held sway in Chihuahua, and the surrounding hills swarmed with his fierce Villistas, who learned soon that the Mennonite men would not raise their fists in anger. Time after time the Villistas forayed down from the hills to rape the blonde Mennonite women while their men stood by and prayed in helpless anguish...
...soundless, polite waver wiggled skyscrapers, floors and desks, then awesomely heaved harder, and adopted a unique up-and-down motion. The bells in St. Patrick's steeple on Mission Street rang all by themselves; at the Top of the Mark, some 15 early customers for cocktails noticed more sway than usual, ordered another drink. A painter high on the Golden Gate Bridge clung tight while the main deck seemed to leap, and the 36½-in. cable "snapped back and forth like a clothesline." Two motorists on Highway I south of town scrambled out of their cars, in time...
Thought from Russia. President Soekarno, who for eleven years has exercised an almost mystical sway over Indonesia's masses, was confident he knew the cure for what ailed his nation. "I don't want to become a dictator," said he. "I am a democrat, but it is not democratic liberalism that I want. What I want is guided democracy. All political parties must be buried...