Word: exert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perils of individual inspiration, they sensed a character for whom organization and discipline are indispensable to achievement. In his craftiness, they sensed a personal expression of their organizational need for subterranean conspiracy. In his brutality, they sensed a capacity for the terrorism with which a revolutionary minority must always exert its rule over an overwhelming majority. In his intellectual aridity, they sensed an embodiment of that bleakness inseparable from a philosophy which makes man, even for his ultimate greater glory, the pawn of purely materialist forces...
...reigning imperial household,' said Hiromichi, 'has aggressed on me and my rights and on the rest of the world. ... I consider Hirohito a war criminal. MacArthur is heaven's messenger to Japan. . . . My father, who died in 1915, left a will to exert every effort to realize the family's true place. Until his wish is carried out . . . my father will have no grave, no altar...
Last week one ranking American in Japan admitted that nothing practical could be done about land reform until there was a strong farmers' cooperative which could exert pressure on the Jap Government through future Diet representation. Many another MacArthur reform needed similar backing by interested Japs before it would be effective...
...Since we have only a limited supply of dollars, what would the Americans prefer us to do with them, pay interest or buy goods? ... In the end it will be a question of which side can exert the strongest influence on Congress and the Administration...
Harry Truman made a determined personal effort to get what he wanted. He called the Committee's Democrats to the White House for a dose of the sort of persuasion Franklin Roosevelt used to exert. President Truman seemed resentful. He said the Senate had let him down. He expected that the House would not do the same. He stood pat on his program. He was no longer the "good old Harry" who liked to visit the Hill and chum with his old cronies. He was aggressively Mr. President...