Word: sways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entertain no more relations either direct or indirect with Miss [Greet] Hofmans," the faith healer whose influence over Queen Juliana caused a royal rift (TIME, June 25). Nor would Juliana attend any more religious conferences at ex-Queen Wilhelmina's country palace, Het Loo, where Greet Hofmans held sway over a religious-minded group of peace enthusiasts...
...minutes ticked slowly by, the silence was broken only by the occasional stifled whimpering of the babies strapped on women's backs. On the half-hour there arose a roar: "Afrika Maribuya!" (Africa return to us!), and the women in their bright costumes began to sway to the rhythm of Nkosi Sikelele Afrika (God Bless Africa), the National Congress anthem. Their protest made, the women went away as quietly as they had come...
Divorced. Sammy Kaye, 46, jug-eared "Swing and Sway" bandleader; by Ruth Knox Kay, 46; after 16 years of marriage, no children; in Cleveland...
...Systematic mistrust no longer seems as necessary," he said, summing up the cold war, because the Russians may now be moving "towards a rapprochement with the concepts of the West." Pineau failed even to sway several members of his own diplomatic entourage. As he flew back to Paris to face an uproar of press criticism, a press attache of the French embassy in Washington quietly passed the word that during his visit Christian Pineau had frequently spoken for himself and not for France...
...short-sighted individuals, however, might fear totalitarianism. They can cite Dean Leighton's power to refuse entry to people from gauche geographical areas. In a Free Harvard the good Dean could control immigration completly. Similarly, there is some fear that Free Harvard would automatically become a Theocracy, under the sway of President Pusey and a College of Cardinals (Red Kellogg, P. Tillich, etc.). Actually, a national church would be beneficial. For one thing, there would be a lot more pomp, of which there is too little in these meagre days...