Word: sways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thought from Russia. President Soekarno, who for eleven years has exercised an almost mystical sway over Indonesia's masses, was confident he knew the cure for what ailed his nation. "I don't want to become a dictator," said he. "I am a democrat, but it is not democratic liberalism that I want. What I want is guided democracy. All political parties must be buried...
...would like to tell you that men kill kittens for good reasons, that for good reasons great bombs burst and fools hold sway. Robert Cumming...
...about to swing into its last phase, undergraduate enthusiasm can at last find an adequate form of expression. Those who as freshmen once pined for excitement might well join the Students for Stevenson, the Harvard Young Democrats, the Harvard Liberal Union (and the Harvard Young Republicans) in attempts to sway the key Massachusetts vote one way (or the other...
Boston figures especially in the campaign, for several key Democratic precincts are wavering. For instance, in Roxbury's Jewish and Negro Ward 12, a white Democrat faces a Negro Republican. The Republicans, of course, hope to sway the Negro vote, while the Democrats are concentrating on holding the line by playing up the rent control issue. These precincts are vital for either side to win. Stevenson supporters figure that he must carry Boston by at least 125,000 votes if he is to secure the state's 16 electoral votes. In 1952, Stevenson had a margin of only...
...regiment in the postwar German occupation, General Bolle got plenipotentiary powers and was answerable to nobody in his new job. He swore in a 37-man civil service, including two gendarmes, to carry out his orders. As virtual dictator, French-speaking General Bolle might well have exerted a tyrannical sway over the 704 German-speaking woodcutters, dairy farmers, amateur smugglers, refugees and commuters (to nearby towns in Belgium and Germany) who peopled his realm. But General Bolle was not that sort. "They were all good people," he said of his subjects, "and, all in all, they behaved very nicely. That...