Word: sways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fruitful valleys, their sides scarred and pocked by huge, overhanging boulders and ledges. In the morning, mists backed by fresh winds sweep swiftly across the hillsides, casing them in pale blues. Villages hang precariously, hacked out of pure stone. In such surroundings, only local power and force can hold sway; only the number of rifles a tribe can muster means anything. It is no wonder that Suleiman, as a slim youth tending his master's flocks, dreamed godlike visions in these hills. This dream and the native understanding that only power counts is what set him on his vicious...
...Walter George let that attempted purge influence his views on legislation. No one has ever charged that Georgia's George has yet cast a vengeful vote. This farsighted forbearance seems more remarkable to others than it does to George; his view is that past differences must not sway honest consideration of the present...
...publish news from the four million corners of the earth. Your staff of researchers can come up with answers to make John Kieran chew his nails. You can feed congressmen, governors, the FBI, even F.D.R. with the most esoteric dope. You can swing public opinion and sway private enterprise, but dammit all, TIME, when you print an article like "From Mud to Melody"* you are showing us your soul...
...activity would stem from realism. In postwar Europe, home of 220,000,000 Roman Catholics, or two-thirds of the Church's world flock, Russia will play a considerable role. Further, Soviet influence will probably be dominant in the Balkans, where the Roman and Orthodox Churches share sway. The Vatican and the Kremlin may well find their affairs somewhat mixed up together...
Carmen Cavallero, well-known interpreter of the South American Sway, and his orchestra, will entertain for the 8-0s of the Harvard Naval Training School as the Coca-Cola "Spotlight Band" radio program hits Boston tonight...