Word: sways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than 40 years, the U.S. has held sway in Asia by a combination of Pax Americana and the almighty dollar. Uncle Sam has defended his friends against Communist expansionism while providing aid and guaranteeing markets. Now Mikhail Gorbachev's Soviet Union is behaving less like the Big Bad Bear. The Soviets may well close their naval and air facilities in Viet Nam and continue to foster peace on the Korean peninsula. Many in the area believe it is only a matter of time before the U.S. withdraws from its own bases in the Philippines and removes its ground troops...
...administration is trying to hold all 45 Republicans and sway five of the Senate's 55 Democrats to get a tie vote that Quayle could break in favor of Tower...
Backers of Dukakis, who has been trailing in national polls, said last minute campaigning could sway voters who are not firmly set on either candidate. "Unstable polls show that voter support is still changing," said Rottenberg...
DURING the 1986 campaign for the Massachusetts eighth congressional seat, then-candidate Joseph Kennedy II jogged through stalled traffic in Allston, shaking hands with motorists in a final effort to sway any remaining undecided voters. Shortly afterward, my friend Paul, who had spent the summer working construction in Cambridge, told me how his co-workers, having seen Kennedy on television, raved about his whistle-stop tour of the area's red lights...
What follows is the most moving and powerful part of the film, the shots of the vigils that followed John's death. Seas of bereaved fans cry and sway while singing along with "All You Need is Love." Members of John's family talk about how much they miss him. Finally, there is a clip of John at a white piano in a white room, singing "Imagine." As corny as the sequence sounds, it concludes Imagine: John Lennon in a manner likely to make anyone cry who still mourns for John and his lost promise, as well as that...