Word: sways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Inquisition held full sway over Spain, its agents found (and painstakingly listed) 27 different ways in which the "New Christians" continued to worship in their old faith. In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella published an edict: "There yet remains and is obvious the great harm which has come and still comes to Christians from . . . conversation and communication . . . with the Jews. [They] have made it clear that they would always endeavor by all possible ways and means to ... draw away faithful Christians from our Holy Catholic Church . . . For [this] greatest, most dangerous and most contagious of crimes...
...Embattled Bulwarks. Far more powerful than any of these is Ana. Her sway extends beyond Rumania's 92,000 square miles and its 16.5 million people. She is the leading Communist in the band of states running from the Baltic to the Adriatic, where over 100 million people serve as Russia's shield against attack and Russia's springboard for aggression. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania are the satellites of a power which intends to make the world its satellite...
Swift held politicians in scorn, but served two of them-the Tory Lords Bolingbroke and Oxford-so as to sway a kingdom. He despaired of mankind, but his friendships with Addison, Arbuthnot, Pope and Gay were among the happiest of the age. Women disgusted him, but he loved one woman all his life. Exiled from England to the deanery of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, he conquered, with Gulliver (1726), the world he wished to shame. And though he detested Ireland, he wrote so fiercely in her defense (in The Drapier's Letters and A Modest Proposal...
Millions of Americans would have been maimed or killed in battle and the remainder enslaved or gassed, if they had permitted such blind prejudice against "others" to sway their judgment to the point of refusing those "others" (from Britain, Canada, Australia, Continental Europe and elsewhere) the right to volunteer to save the lives of these Americans and of those dear to them-in the big fight against the Axis...
They are constructing a workers' state, or more precisely, a trade union state. Even this is not quite precise in contemporary U.S. terms. Though the sun never sets over the lands to which their sway extends, the Labor Party looks inward. The fate of Burma disturbs it less than a housewife's complaint, and the housewife will go unheard if a shop steward is discontented...