Word: wield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American-occupied zone, control authorities kicked out 40,000 Berlin block, street and house leaders. They had originally been appointed by the Russians to search out known Nazis, handle ration cards, report on available labor. The American report was that the small-fry German leaders had begun to wield power in their neighborhoods just as arrogantly as their predecessors in Germany's notorious block organizations had done under Hitler; some of them had actually worked under the Nazi regime. (The British still held to the block leaders, warned them not to consider themselves little kings but servants...
Japanese women "have been taught to hate you. They do as their men tell them, and many of them have been told to kill you. Sex is one of the oldest and most effective weapons in history. The Geisha girl knows how to wield it charmingly. She may entice you only to poison you. She may slit your throat. Stay away from the women of Japan - all of them...
...Port Arthur it was just an ordinary busy morning. The big, bulging grain elevators (capacity: more than 50,000,000 bu.) were hiring anyone who could and would wield a shovel. More grain ships than ever before were being loaded at the great Lake Superior port...
This is what the inglorious process of "mopping up" can do to the foot soldiers who wield the mop. It is a process dirty, bloody and exhausting, not easily distinguishable from any other kind of warfare. In the Philippines, it still meant mud and C-rations, belly-tightening fear and dog-tired homesickness, shooting Japs and getting shot at-and getting killed...
...very large extent the specific recommendations made by our church groups have been given effect. The basic conception of Dumbarton Oaks was that a few great powers would wield overwhelming military might to repress violence. The nations represented at San Francisco found that conception unacceptable. A few feared that the Great Powers would in fact agree upon a use of force which unguided by moral principles would be oppressive and unjust. Many more feared that the five Great Powers would be unable to agree among themselves and that the Security Council would be impotent as an organ for action. This...