Word: sways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They even counterbalance the present Great Rose Gould, a highly publicized aerialist who does little more than hold on tightly to a rope as she plummets earthwards. Alberti stands on his head on a 50-feet pole and, as the audience watches in silent dismay, causes the pole to sway back and forth. Alzanas skips rope on a high wire, his father standing 40 feet below in the interest of safety, if you can call it that. He indulges one of history's most perverse senses of humor by appearing periodically as if he is about to fall. Maybe...
...years, a bill proposing a form of Universal Military Training has finally reached the House Rules Committee. The bill, H.R. 4278, is now pigconholed there by a six to six deadlock of the group. However, there are indications that the proponents of the measure will be able to sway to their side the one vote necessary to put the issue on the floor of the House...
First they banned the Rashtriya Sway-am Sewak Sangh (Organization for Service to the Nation), militant Hindu youth organization of which Gandhi's assassin, Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, was a member. Some 1,200 leaders and members were arrested for questioning. The secret R.S.S.S., which had mushroomed to a membership of about 2,000,000 since the communal riots began last year, drew most of its strength from the warlike Mahratta people of western India, who have always regarded the Moslems as invading interlopers...
...Like This. . . In Springfield, Mass., Joseph A. Passineau was acquitted of drunkenness when he explained that he was a bulldozer driver, persuaded the jury that his stagger was really an "occupational sway...
Some of the Negro congregation began to murmur the words of the hymn the choir was singing, "How sweet it is to know Him, Jesus Christ divine." Slowly choir and congregation began to sway and clap and stomp to the rhythm. People in the audience jiggled and jounced up & down shouting "Oh Lord, tell a story!" A mother pushed her child from her lap, crying "Oh Jesus, I'll fly away...