Word: sways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, officialdom in Washington and London protested De Gaulle's timing most of all: in the middle of the Berlin crisis, it was essential, they said, to convince Russia of Western unity. But this was not an argument calculated to sway a man who had never hesitated in World War II to put pressure on Britain and the U.S. at precisely the time when it would have maximum effect...
...roughly the decade of the 1920s, the Young Pioneers held sway in the schools, and students learned biology through such "socially useful works" as anti-cockroach campaigns in the slums. Then, abruptly, the party line changed; hard learning returned to favor, and the progressivists were kicked...
...Conant report is, then, a political document, designed to sway school boards and school principals. It is written in terms which the least sophisticated can really grasp, equipped with check lists and inventories which a ten-year-old could easily administer. The appeal throughout is to that great political slogan: individual freedom and variation. Although the major emphasis of the report is on providing higher academic standards for the intelligent minority, this appeal is surrounded with recommendations which appeal to every special interest group from vocationalism to the mentally retarted...
...them sway Tryin' to keep the hula hoop from
...Jordan out of his hands. Nasser's economic and political difficulties in absorbing Syria (TIME, June 30) may also have persuaded him that out-and-out annexation of other Arab countries is a poor idea. Provided that he can bring the rest of the Arab world under his sway-as he has already done in Iraq and Saudi Arabia-the Egyptian dictator might be content with a loose federation of Arab states rather than one imperial Egyptianrun nation. These were the reassuring possibilities...