Word: sways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...focus reader attention on headlines scattered over a broader expanse of paper, the managing editor prescribed Cheltenham bold to replace the former New York Timesish condensed type. Cheltenham held sway for 20 years when it was voted to go streamlined with so called Airport. The present Board of Editors have decided to change once more by introducing the more relined Bodoni as part of the Crimson's post-war reconstruction...
...Jazz by Sammy ("Swing and Sway") Kaye, Eddy Duchin, Hildegarde, Bing Crosby and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France...
Until something is done to make Congress and the War Department become more interested in seeing that we get a fair deal instead of using us to sway public opinion to their side, we will never feel that doing a good job is worth the effort...
Thirty years ago Italian-born Gabriella Besanzoni was one of the world's topflight Carmens (La Scala). Then she married Brazil's millionaire banker and industrialist. Henrique Lage. In Rio, Madame Lage held sway at smart soirees, horsed her way into Brazilian society's front ranks...
Growled Arthur Vandenberg, who may well sway the U.S. Senate for or against any treaty ratifying a world charter: "I . . . deeply disagree. . . ." All three Congressmen made their disgust acidly plain to Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr., who had suddenly discovered spots on his shiny new world...