Word: exert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amidst the confusion, each party has a stabilizing factor. In the G.O.P. Dwight Eisenhower could-if he would-be an important force in selecting the nominee. Among Democrats, Harry Truman can-and he will-exert considerable influence. No matter what either man does, the prospect for the U.S. is a yearlong, two-ring political circus that may well be the greatest show of its kind in U.S. history...
...angry Roy Clogston, athletic director of North Carolina State College, yesterday attacked the State Department's refusal to issue visas to a touring Russian basketball team. He said he would ask North Carolina's senators today to exert Congressional pressure on the Department to get the visas...
...Edward Beaumont. From the first it was a religious movement of laymen, in spirit ecumenical, evangelical and often puritanical. Aimed at young workers who had become indifferent to religion in the turmoil of the Industrial Revolution, the Y.M.C.A. had no formal religious creed, urged its members only "to exert a Christian influence in the sphere of their daily calling...
...While therapy and interviews were uncovering significant material, he underwent no overnight transformation. But firm controls at the center helped him improve his own self-control, and the counselors' patently impartial concern for his welfare brought him slowly to understand his problem and its causes. He began to exert himself, gruffly ordering younger children to obey the center staff...
...home for several holidays. Carefully coached by his counselors at Ryther, he rebuffed his mother when she tried to resume their wrestling. When she began to reject him in his new role, he faced a real, personal crisis: whether to please her and thus win back her love, or exert his latent masculinity...