Word: wield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agree on just what is the most important educational job in the U.S., the presidency of the Ford Foundation clearly comes close. Were the foundation nothing more than what a New Yorker wag called it-"a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some"-it would wield power enough. But it has used its money to tackle problems-and try solutions-on a scale grander than private philanthropy has ever known. It has more than a third ($2.7 billion) of all the foundation money in the U.S. It spends at the rate of $100 million a year...
...watched Senate investigators unfolding an ever-spreading picture of corruption and abuse in the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Not since the investigation of the finagling tycoons of the '20s and '30s had so many serious questions been raised against men in a position to wield great influence on the U.S. economy...
With a proud and somewhat hurt air, a group of Texas oillionaires gathered last week at a ground-breaking ceremony for the Houston Museum of Fine Arts' $860,000 building-expansion program. There to wield a special silver shovel were Donors Nina Cullinan (daughter of Texas Co. Founder Joseph S. Cullinan), who is putting up more than $430,000 for a new, ultramodern, Mies van der Rohe-designed museum wing, and Mrs. Olga Wiess (widow of Humble Oil Co. Co-Founder Harry Wiess), who with other Texans, including the Jesse Jones family, contributed enough for remodeling and air-conditioning...
...Prosperity politics" is not enough, said Butler. The Tory appeal must rest on two "main and realistic principles": 1) "To wield the power of the state to balance the interests within it, producing a society in which rewards go to those who are successful in increasing the wealth of the whole, and so make it possible to help others who are in need"; and 2) "So to organize our international and defense policies as to hold our position in the world...
...section of the Polish Communist Party is committed to a course of liberating Poland, not from Communism but from the brand of Communist satellitism thrust on Poland by the Russians. These "liberal" Communists are young and few in number outside Warsaw, though for the moment they wield a dominating influence in the regime. They are handicapped, first by the fact that Stalin's purging of the Polish party has left them few competent leaders, and secondly by the fact that the Polish people are in no mood to make a distinction between "good" and "bad" Communists. The Poznan trial...