Word: wield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more serious is the fact that this amendment is potentially very harmful; it would destroy the influence which a revitalized American foreign policy could wield. As Secretary Woodring recently said, "Let us keep ourselves in position to use our powerful influence . . . to uphold international good faith, decency, and order, in the knowledge that only in a world that respects these underlying principles can democracies survive...
English A, although possibly a monster of boredom to several hundred fledglings unable to wield adverbs and prepositions, accomplishes this basic purpose. Those who wish to go further than the required course in composition carries them usually take English A-1, and this course presents a problem in teaching for the single reason that it contains men interested in two different kinds of writing...
...Gianninis made music all the time. The father, Ferruccio, was an oldtime opera singer who could boast that he had once sung with Patti. The mother, Antoinetta, played the violin. Daughters Euphemia and Dusolina sang. Son Francis had a cello when he was big enough to wield one. Son Vittorio practiced endlessly on the piano...
...which is itself hustling to a Coronation, an accurate interpretation of its great-grandparents, and their times. While society wept over the sentimentality of its men of letters, one alone among them was striving to reform the more ugly aspects of life. Dickens was indeed at work here to wield the powers at his command to raise the lower classes from the degradation and poverty which he knew so well. Not only does "Coronation Summer" paint a portrait of Victoria, her coronation, and her era, but it brings out in vivid colors the emotions and the intellectual ambitions which resulted...
...reaches for the Rhine gold, while the hands of the Rhine Maidens attempt to restrain him. At the right is the curse of the Ring, the mailed fist thrust through the Ring and holding a sword, which symbolizes the threat of destruction with fire and sword by those who wield the power of the Ring...