Word: sways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girdling her hips. Obviously nervous, dressed in a square-shouldered white gown, Lena flashed her magnificent teeth in the spotlight and curtsied demurely. Then, as the lights went down and the rhythm began to pad out softly behind her, she slithered cosily up to the mike and began to sway. First she gave them It's Just One of Those Things in a low and sultry voice. By the time she came to the line, "Our love affair was too hot not to cool down," the French found Lena's English perfectly translatable. And when she finished...
...last favorable tide began to ebb, the union leaders made one desperate final effort to win the men back from Murphy's sway. "Listen," one of them shouted, "if you'll take the ship out on the tide, you can turn this meeting into an executive session and elect your representatives now." But Murphy shouted him down. There'd be no election, he cried, until tomorrow, "and we'll let the ship lie there tonight." The pimply-faced steward looked at the tall ship and cried gleefully: "Well, chum...
...committee recommended instead that groups "which attempt to influence public opinion" be required to disclose all pertinent facts about themselves, as now required of business by the SEC. Said the report: "Our purpose ... is to enable the people better to judge the true motives of those who try to sway them...
From then on, the leftists knew that they had no chance to sway the convention. They had come primed to fight for the re-election of bumbling R. J. Thomas as a C.I.O. vice president, and thus build up his efforts to take the presidency of the U.A.W. away from redheaded Walter Reuther. But the leftists never got their fists up. Phil Murray, taking note of rumors that Thomas was plotting with John L. Lewis to take the autoworkers out of the C.I.O., called Thomas in and bluntly told them he was through as a C.I.O. top officer. When...
There's an old saying that quarterbacks don't make coaches, but at Soldiers Field Dick Harlow's quarterback of the late 30's has for the last two years held sway as the spirited and successful coach of the Junior Varsity football team. Now one of Harlow's senior lieutenants, Chief Boston is a sizeable cog in the Crimson athletic picture--operating at jobs as scout and head wrestling coach besides at his weekday Jayvee command...