Word: sways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dared the Government go? If the purpose of its note to Germany was to prepare Argentine public opinion for war, could it sway the fractious Army, too? No one doubted that canny Vice President Perón remembered that Argentina's diplomatic break with the Axis a year ago had caused super-nationalists to overthrow Pedro Ramirez' Government. At week's end the situation in Buenos Aires was still "fluid...
...Scandinavian lands are more than 90% Lutheran. Those who would "put an end to Luther's influence in Germany" should reflect that Hitler and his advisers are not and never were Lutherans, and that Lutheran pastors have been the chief obstacle to Hitler's absolute sway in Germany, Norway and Denmark, and for that reason they have suffered imprisonment and martyrdom by the thousands...
...York Timesman A. C. Sedgwick reported: "While the Greek Government holds sway in Athens and its environs, the remainder of the country except Epirus ... is virtually a Communist province...
From the lines at Patras, the New York Times's A. C. Sedgwick wrote: "The E.L.A.S. holds sway through force of arms. . . . Undoubtedly there are many in the E.L.A.S. who are hardly conscious of the aims of the party's innermost core, but those who profess to know them see endless complications in store from a new type of tyranny that, they say, has already been manifested. Some say that the people suffered as much from the excesses of the E.L.A.S. in browbeating them into Communism as from the Germans...
...P.A.C.'s convention headquarters were in two 19th-floor rooms of the Sherman Hotel, filled with red leather chairs and Renoir prints. Here P.A.C.'s assistant chairman, Calvin ("Beanie") Baldwin, and its research director, smooth, balding Economist J. Raymond Walsh, held sway, totting up the Wallace count, working on delegates, calling the printer for more placards. Across the hall was a small room, with the blinds half-drawn, where Sidney Hillman took catnaps between conferences...