Word: exert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overall importance in both plans is the setting up of a forum (like the New York Federal Reserve under Strong and Harrison) where experienced men can exert their influence for sanity in financial affairs. Of like importance is the substitution of a multilateral agreement, a set of rules for voluntary participants to observe, in place of bilateral deals that can only fan destructive competition. Both plans write a text based on desperate rearguard campaigns of the '20s and '30s. They recognize the experience leading to the minimal Tripartite Agreement of 1936: that some collaboration, any collaboration, in international...
...solidarity between American Negroes and the peoples of India." Says McWilliams: the Good Neighbor policy can hardly be taken seriously by South Americans resentful of North American race discrimination. And finally, the U.S. attitude on discrimination becomes "a fulcrum on which the Axis propaganda levers can be placed to exert pressures in multiple directions...
...Only one out of ten thinks religion will be able to play any significant part in shaping Britain's postwar conditions, but three out of ten wish that the church were strong enough to exert such an influence...
From Coach Ulen's point of view the big event of the evening was the victory of his son Don in the breaststroke. He stated that the times were only average, but that most would be lowered in future competition when his swimmers are forced to exert themselves a bit more, and when certain style kinks are ironed...
...under only one peculiar disadvantage that I am aware of, but that one is incalculable. I mean my deafness. This does not endanger the accuracy of my information, I believe, as far as it goes, because I carry a trumpet of remarkable fidelity; an instrument moreover, which seems to exert some winning power, by which I gain more in tete-a-tete than is given to people who hear general conversation. Probably its charm consists in the new feeling of ease and privacy in conversing with a deaf person...