Word: exerts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heavy Stakes. More than that, California's gubernatorial battle probably will exert a profound influence on the presidential election of 1960. Rarely have so many presidential hopefuls had heavy stakes in a state election. Among them...
...check on Driver Kaiser, turned up the fact that he had a record of five arrests on charges ranging from speeding to driving without a license. And from the West German policemen's union came an irate demand that Strauss be charged with an attempt to exert improper influence...
Such consecrations are valid because by definition a bishop has the power to create other bishops-a power which, in Catholic doctrine, is transmitted in unbroken line from the apostles themselves. But no bishop may exert jurisdiction over a diocese without specific appointment from Rome. China's new "progressive" bishops are therefore subject to excommunication...
...Alaskans assumed that as the territory passed into statehood, Governor (by presidential appointment) Mike Stepovich, 39, would stay (by election) right where he is, in Juneau's 30-room executive mansion. The assumption had impelling logic. Mike would run in place -a distinct advantage-and, if elected, could exert sweeping appointive powers to seed the new state offices with Republicans. But the new game of politics in an unborn state is not that logical...
...determined not only on a policy of business as usual, but also one of reform. Accepted with almost universal joy, they confidently began planning the trials of nearly 100 "traitors" ("The government is grateful," said the Minister of Guidance with a perfectly straight face, "that the people did not exert justice themselves but awaited due process of law"). They boosted their popularity by slashing the price of bread and gasoline...