Word: sway
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...celebrations of the 2,600th anniversary of the Japanese Empire to discuss expansionist moves with Army and Navy leaders. The newspaper Yomiuri defined all this without making any mince: "The work left for Japan is to sweep away the remains of the white empire which so long has held sway in our part of the world...
There was a time, not so many hundreds of years ago, when California was overrun by Spaniards who lived, laughed, fought and loved in true Latin tradition. Caballeros and peons were happy under the sway of a good alcande, but completely miserable when he was replaced by the gold-greedy Alcande Quintero. And so young Diego came over the seas from Spain's West Point to rescue his people and restore to them his father's benign rule...
...failed to shake it; but when lighter, intermittent breezes swept in from the open Sound, it was agitated by a peculiar weaving, sinuous motion that its builder said looked like the movement of a snake under a rug. Some people got seasick at once when the bridge began to sway; some enjoyed the weird sensation, high above the water, with the wind howling and the bridge throbbing as if it were alive. Its eminent designer, Leon Moisseiff, 68-year-old builder of the Manhattan, the Triborough, the George Washington, many another mighty bridge, was unworried by its capriciousness. Builder Moisseiff...
...such a scheme would work, no one could say. Henry Wallace, on his record, was an abler administrator than the President. Certainly he knew more law, more about finance, farming and business than the President. Without Franklin Roosevelt's ability to sway the masses, he was nevertheless more effective, man to man, with Senators, Congressmen and just plain people. Earthy, heavily humorous, direct, he inspired admiration but neither idolatrous devotion nor awe. And he had one surpassing quality that Mr. Roosevelt did not have: he was not tolerant of incompetence. No one who was merely loyal worked in Wallace...
...ambition which comes upon many a citizen, especially when he is in his cups, is to lead a band. Most professional band leaders do not encourage these amateur impulses. But last week Leader Sammy Kaye, a smart, sandy, jug-eared young man whose slogan is "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye," turned this yen to good account. When he was winding up a recent engagement at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, Sammy Kaye had let the enthusiastic drunks go through the motions of leading his orchestra, awarded champagne to the best and funniest. Last week, on a tour of movie...