Word: wield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Rickenbacker, Ozzie Keiver, Linc Kinnicutt, Sam Seager, Dick Drury, and Herb Mee will wield the sticks for the home team, aiming to win their sixth straight victory, this time over a team that Dartmouth whitewashed last week at Amherst's own links...
Many Harvard AVC members wield their influence elsewhere around the College, but when they do, they speak as individuals, not as AVC representatives. Its New England Regional Chairman, Arnold Rivkin, is also co-founder of the Law School group for Douglas, while State AVC Chairman Andrew Rice 2G is a member of the National Executive Committee for Eisenhower. Manny Margolis (Wallace) and Hale Knight (Stassen) are two others active within the AVC fold...
...because it is afraid the final result will somehow be less than perfect. Others complain that the whole recovery problem should go to the United Nations, where they hope that the Russians would be persuaded to agree with us. Still another powerful school of thought holds that we must wield European aid as a political weapon first and foremost, and that any possible economic benefits to the nations concerned are of relative unimportance. And there are only a few steps between this position and the belief that a so-called "preventive" war can alone preserve...
...Indians wield their Hatchett and Malekoff with our scalps," said his neophyte aide, "but I'm Tallan you that the Scarlet puts plenty Fiorentino...
Marre worked for eighteen months in the celluloid capital, and at present is directing the Harvard Theater Workshop Production of "Henry IV." He asserts that he knows no Communists in the Guild, and adds that if there are any, they don't wield an erg of influence. "There are a few ineffectual left-wing liberals, with whose opinions most of Harvard would agree," says Marre, adding. "They do their best...