Word: sways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closely reasoned speech before his colleagues. "I must take it," Mills said, "that those of you who would vote to strike Title IV from the bill feel that the present chaotic mess is preferable to what we have in the bill." Mills' either-or proposition was enough to sway borderline Congressmen. By a vote of 234-187 the House voted down a motion to scratch Title IV from the omnibus bill, then approved it entirely, 288-132. The bill will now go before the Senate for its consideration...
...still available in high season. Near by, the primordial stillness of the dark brown waters of the Okefenokee Swamp keeps the secrets of another eon. This is Georgia's black belt, where slaves worked cotton in the loamy soil and the plantation aristocracy held sway. Cotton is gone now, replaced by peanuts and the silent agriculture of Georgia pines oozing gum for turpentine...
Farther downtown on Peachtree, another youth community holds sway. Boutiques and head shops, long hair and beards, communal living and radical politics set the residents of the counterculture's Southern headquarters off from their contemporaries at Uncle Sam's. Although resistance to the hippies has resulted in periodic crackdowns along "The Strip," the community has emerged with its own self-help alliance to provide social and medical services to the permanent and transient members of the neighborhood. The hip community is now so firmly established on the city's scene that Mayor Massell dropped in on a recent "People...
...Sway," the second cut, sounds like a slowed down "Stray Cat Blues" and it is not particularly impressive or memorable. It is followed, however, by "Wild Horse," a beautiful ballad that is the one real standout in a uniformly fine album. The Flying Burrito Brothers did a good version of this song last year, but the Jagger-Richard vocal is unbeatable. This is clearly one of the two or three best ballads the Stones have recorded...
...Chodrow said that he and other Physics grad students had been asked by Roy J. Glauber, professor of Physics, to attend the demonstrators' meeting "to see if they could sway the course of the meeting" to postpone their questions until after Land's talk...