Word: sways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berlin: "Gigantic air battles have occurred almost daily. But these air battles are not fought over Germany or France or elsewhere on the Continent, but in the air over the British Isles. . . . The Churchill lines have begun to sway even before a German soldier has set foot on the soil of the British island...
...Wants Peace? At no time since the war began have peace rumors been so well supported by cold logic as they were last week. Hitler held Europe. With France under his control (see p. 27), he held sway over northwest Africa, had a foothold in the Near East. Peace would be fine for Hitler-peace with the status quo. It would give him time to consolidate his conquests, to build a navy, to soften up new worlds to conquer...
Swing and Sway, this time with Kent Bartlett and his ten-piece orchestra, will climax the hectic Yardling Jubilee weekend next week when the Philip Brooks House Freshman Committee presents its annual informal dance in the Union Common Room the evening...
...column on such a broad subject as that encompassed by the term "swing" has a hard job ahead of him in deciding what he shall include in his definition of the word. For clearly there is plenty of open ground between the swing which is linked with sway by S. Kaye and that swing which, according to Duke Ellington, "It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got." There will certainly be more potential readers who have danced to the strains of Kaye and others of his ilk than have heard much of the Duke's music. Hence...
...mind before, on the questions of economy, relief, and the gold standard for instance, he had a majority of the citizenry standing behind him approving any shift he might make. This time he obviously does not, and it appears that all the powers of press and publicity will not sway that vital two-thirds. We have seen government by militant authority before and we have labelled it fascism...