Word: wield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sketch the elevation. If any nails are to be driven home to ensure the stability of even one upright, the only student body capable of driving them is the representative council. If, as has been so far promised by vague rumorings, it shakes off its former lethargy, it can wield to effect the hammer it has long unconsciously held...
...civil war. I am not asking the Greeks to do the impossible. I do not expect all Greeks to become friends, but I want them to become accustomed to respect the popular voice of the people and to see that when one party is in power it will not wield its power unfairly against those out of office...
...Gridiron Club of Washington, high society of the Fourth Estate, host of Presidents and notables, privileged because its members wield the great battle-club of publicity, presented at its winter dinner an entertainment to pique the most jaded political palate...
...eager to enforce the Pax Romana with their broadswords. While it may be true in the present age there can be no peace in the world without an understanding among the English speaking nations that war shall be prohibited yet unless England and the United States stands prepared to wield more than "more suasion," such an agreement will have little real effectiveness...
...Vassar they wave a distaff over the heads of the professors, and threaten to force all their instructors to undergo grading by the student body. At New Haven they wield a stouter weapon. "The Saturday Evening Pest", a single sheet anonymously printed, has announced its purpose to bring about a complete change in the undergraduate point of view: "We believe--that Yale is preparing men not to live, but to make a living--that the life of the undergraduate is stupid, empty, and meaningless". At the same time the communication columns of the more conservative "News" have been rife with...