Word: wield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paunchy little man stood quietly behind the marble rostrum, uneasy in his unaccustomed formal clothes, his shrewd, warm eyes downcast, his bald head shining dully in the soft glow from the vast skylight. Inches from his right hand was the gavel, the symbol of the authority he would now wield as Speaker of the House, until death or defeat of the Democrats. Sam Rayburn, 58, of Bonham, Tex., bachelor, shorthorn breeder, and for seven years a moderator of the New Deal, was waiting to speak his piece...
When critics point to the many racketeers who hold office in A. F. of L. unions, William Green cries that he is being crucified. His alibi: that the Federation lacks disciplinary power over its autonomous international unions, can wield the big stick only over the Federal unions directly affiliated with it. Last week Mr. Green had a chance to use his stick...
...additional dual meets with Princeton and Cornell in the spring. And the sacrifice by a few individual performers whom the HAA has been sending to Madison Square Garden at considerable expense cannot be avoided. If Harvard is to make the most of its coach and its material, it must wield the knife with unflinching decision now, in the hope that it may restore the health and self-respect of the Crimson track team in the future...
...into the war on the side of the Allies. Her experience in and after the almost profitless last war is too vivid a memory. Besides, she has nothing to carve from Germany. If an Allied victory became probable, Italy would stay out right until the end, and then wield the nuisance value of an intact army to force general redistribution of the spoils at the peace conference...
...Allies. Picturing himself as a sentry who "sees approaching a force which frankly and openly seeks to destroy," Jimmy thundered: "Upon this interpretation of my duties as a diplomat I am content to risk my official head. If I be wrong then let the executioner be summoned and wield his ax. Head chopping is just an old family custom with the Cromwells anyhow...