Word: wield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...structure. The Texas plan demanded that all presently organized groups be barred: spokesmen from organizations as widely separately as the AVD and the parochial Newman Clubs of America asked inclusion as voting delegates. The resulting compromise called for the creation of a council of the 19 organizations which would wield 10% of the executive committee's voting strength through three joint delegates working side by side with the campus-electees...
Arthur Vandenberg would be missed. By supporting Secretary Byrnes in his policy of "patience as well as firmness" with the Russians, he had kept U.S. foreign policy on a high bi-partisan plane. But in the future, as chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, he might wield even more influence and speak with greater authority...
...intervention of other, more immediate problems forced out the tutorial question, perhaps faculty or student indolence is the answer. Whatever the causes, one of the most important educational considerations in the recent history of Harvard College has been allowed to slip out of sight during a period which may wield a significant influence on the College's academic future...
...worry about the finer points of literary art and navigation. Author Jennings, who wrote 1939's best-selling Next to Valour (TIME, June 12, 1939), is an old hand: he knows how to cram a historical novel full to bursting with blood, sweat and tears, and can wield both cutlass and bobby-pin with sangfroid...
Whoever wrote your penetrating and devastating analysis of Salazar's dictatorship gave a good boost to the cause of democracy. No dictator can be quite sure of his job while free men can wield such...