Word: wield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike the Republican 80th Congress, the Democrats would organize the 82nd. The Republicans would wield a balance of power without having to answer directly for what Congress did. They had not planned it that way, but they were mightily pleased that it was to be that...
About 20 students, anxious to wield their rights of suffrage, showed up Wednesday at what might be called the Coop's annual stockholders' meeting. As it was, they were called upon to vote on only two issues, since the secretary's report was accepted without a ballot, and the treasurer's report ("If you turn to page seven," said Mr. Humphreys, "you'll see that the Coop is fairly well heeled") was also unopposed...
Novelist Norris. a senior editor of Newsweek, has set out to write a satire of the times, and he has not quite achieved it; satire calls for a steady hand, a rapier that can reach bone. He does show that he can wield the needle of burlesque with some of the best in the business...
...eyed, hungry-looking man of 38, got the idea for his new opera from reading about a refugee who committed suicide when she was turned down for a visa. Says Menotti: "I know we must have some bureaucracy . . . but I cannot abide little people who, given a little power, wield it inflexibly and cruelly...
...week, he predicted a high level of business through at least igso's third quarter. There might be "some further drop in production and employment," said Slichter, "[but] I do not believe that it will be severe or long." And while Slichter thought that Government and unions would wield still bigger power in shaping the economy, it would remain one "run, in the main, by tens of millions of consumers each buying what they prefer, and by millions of business managers each using his own judgment as to what to make and how to make it ... So long...