Word: sways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the depression, Western nations have accepted the necessity of freer trade. The need for economic strength in the Cold War has only confirmed this belief, yet under the sway of particular interests, the United States has failed to lower its tariffs on many products manufactured by her allies. Consequently, despite forty billion dollars spent in aid, these countries can neither develop industrially nor purchase needed American products. The result is often a lower standard of living and resentment of "Yankee imperialism." Besides weakening Western defense in general, high tariffs have hurt American exporters in particular, since some foreign markets...
Besides, Churchill implied. Whitehall's ability to sway U.S. policymaking is in direct proportion to British deterrent strength. "Personally," he said, "I cannot feel that we should have much influence over [U.S.] policy or actions, wise or unwise, while we are largely dependent, as we are today, upon their protection...
...jaunt to Paris in 1873. Paul Gauguin was a strapping fellow with a bull neck, a great beak of a nose, and hooded, blue-green eyes. His stockbroker's black business suit sat strangely on him because he looked like a pirate chief and walked with the rolling sway of a seaman. He had spent part of his childhood in Peru (where his mother took him to visit relatives after his journalist father died). In his teens, Paul ran away to sea and put in six years before the mast. "Oh, I was a great rascal!" he would later...
DESPITE the growing sway of TV and hifi, despite a bounding passion for sports, despite increasing crime, flourishing liquor consumption, marriages, divorces and other distractions, the U.S. somehow manages to keep on reading-or at least buying-more books. If the number of books published and bought were the only criterion, 1954 was a big year. Publisher's Weekly, the industry's statistician, guessed that 1953's alltime high of 12,050 new titles would be equaled or surpassed by Dec. 31. It seemed likely that 1953's record sale of an estimated 600 million copies...
PACKARD hopes to beat other automakers out with a new torsion-bar-ride-control mechanism, which it believes will give it the easiest riding car in the industry. The torsion-bar mechanism operates by electricity to cut down side-sway and absorb bumps, will be installed as standard equipment on 1955 high-priced Packard lines...