Word: sways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Singing her songs of loves that are dead or dying, she seems at times on the verge of tears, suddenly switches to a hardly repressed gust of defiant laughter. What the words do not say she suggests with a sway of her body, a flutter of her fan, a twirl of her floor-brushing skirts. Her biggest hit: Pena Penita (Little Sorrow...
...haven of free speech and free thought. They built schools, hospitals and highways. They gave Cuba a national bank, made loans to expand industry and diversify agriculture, and improved labor standards in a land plagued by seasonal unemployment. And, despite fantastic sums spent to sway elections, they kept the way open for democratic change...
...were really living then. People don't live half the time y'know . . . I think it's only when you're being hunted that you really live ... I liked being hunted ... the feeling that every minute was important, that everything you did would sway the balance...
Boston is a case in point. At least four commercial groups, notably CBS, have petitioned the FCC for use of Channel 2. Although this pressure is not of itself sufficient to sway the FCC from its original purpose of educational television, when combined with the uncertainty of local educational groups, it may achieve that result anyway. For, if the Lowell Institute Council--which includes most of the colleges and universities in metropolitan Boston--does not take advantage of Channel 2 within a year or so, the commercial stations will probably be allowed to move...
...nationalist, a patriot gone zealot. Schumacher is a frail, cadaverous man of unexpected vigor. He gave his right arm to the Fatherland on the Russian front in World War I, lost his left leg following his ten years in Nazi concentration camps. In the Bundestag, where he holds great sway, he is a frightening performer. He jabs at every word with the bony fingers of his one hand. He has staked his future-and would stake Germany's-on the narrow and dangerous path of fervent nationalism and neutralism. Even in his own party, Schumacher causes discomfort; one high...