Word: wield
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Editor Cyril Connolly's Horizon is wide and highbrow. In his little (circ. 9,500) London magazine, he likes to wield a brush on big intellectual canvases. Six years ago Editor Connolly put out an all-Irish number, a year ago an all-Swiss edition. In the October issue of Horizon, Connolly paid his respects...
Twenty men were nominated for positions as delegates to the coming two-day Massachusetts state AVC convention at Springfield. The delegation will be elected at the next meeting of the chapter on Wednesday, October 22. The AVC group here, the largest in the state, is expected to wield much influence when the convention opens on November...
...What happened at last week's debarkations depended on what paper you read, and what country you lived in. From behind the burlap screens on the cages, American reporters saw "pitched, bloody battles." Over vivid A.P. and U.P. dispatches, many a U.S. paper used such headlines as TROOPS WIELD CLUBS TO EMPTY SHIP. From behind the same screens, British reporters saw British troops using restraint, helping old women and children down the gangplanks and generally behaving like gentlemen. A typical British headline (in the London Daily Telegraph-): JEWS USE BOTTLES & CLUBS ON TROOPS. The Evening News admitted that there...
...Fernandes, Brazil's 69-year-old Foreign Minister, the meeting will be something of a personal triumph. It will give him opportunity to push his, and Brazil's, two-fold policy: Pan-Americanism and friendship with the U.S. As Brazil's chief delegate, he will wield great, if not always apparent, power...
...Crimson invading forces will be the six men who carried Adams House to its decisive victory in the "A" League intramural squash tournament. Branford College's strong squash squad will be pitted against Al Alpern, Ned Bothfield, Stan Friedman, John Rogers, Breck Marshall, and Corny Smith, who will wield their rackets against heavy odds...