Word: wield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conspirators? They are conspirators because they have no loyalties; because their is the sword that knows no brother. The rise of Hitler to power in Nazi Germany provides a neat example of this and into the bargain shows what a double-edged sword it is that the armament makers wield...
...East" the League knuckled under. It intimated that Dr. Rajchman will not return to China. Nanking. In all this prattling over China few paid any attention to the real interests of that vast sprawling helpless country. Nanking, impotent against Japan's armies, had one obvious weapon to wield against Japan's declaration of a moral protectorate. She could appeal to the signatories of the Nine Power Treaty (1922) guaranteeing Chinese sovereignty independence. Months ago when the Japanese doctrine was first proclaimed that was just what Nanking prepared to do. Prudent investigation in Geneva. London, Paris, Washington told...
...Senators were on the Senate floor; 2) because he felt the Undersecretary should be "one familiar with the lowly and despised occupation of farming." Said he: "What is needed for that job is a farmer who knows what overalls are for, not a man who knows only how to wield a pointer in front of a blackboard...
...churchman and his biography is subtitled "World Citizen," his identity is not far to seek. The Pope of Rome could be so called, but only in a spiritual sense. The Archbishop of Canterbury sometimes goes yachting with J. P. Morgan in the Mediterranean, but he does not wield much power outside his own Anglican world. Presiding Bishop Perry of the U. S. Episcopal Church and Presbyterian Moderator McDowell are not international figures. But Dr. John Raleigh Mott is. For his work as an organizer and inspirational leader in foreign missions he is famed from the Oasis of Helwan in Egypt...
...essentially correct; the tactics of his opponents, particularly in the Lindbergh affair has been despicable and characteristically hypocritical. I do not believe that many people will be taken in by their blather about unfairness, despite their control of a good portion of the press and the immense influence they wield due to their wealth; and their success can only be viewed as the triumph of blackguardism...