Word: wield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...returning lettermen, led by all-Ivy epee specialist Nick Spitzer, the squad's captain, will wield swords for the Crimson. Backing them up is a spirited group of sophomores up from a Yardling team that posted a winning record last year...
After seven months the patient had enough sensation in his fingertips to detect temperature differences of two or three degrees Fahrenheit. He could write, play pingpong, pick up weights of more than 13 lbs., and wield a hammer with authority...
...Just Forget It." The trustbusters' increased powers are in the hands of a new chief who pledges to wield them firmly but carefully. "I feel strongly that we shouldn't abuse our power," says Assistant Attorney General William Orrick Jr., 47, who took over the Justice Department's antitrust division this spring after serving in the State Department and as boss of Justice's civil rights division. Orrick followed Trustbuster Lee Loevinger, who filed a record 92 antitrust cases in 1962, irritated businessmen with his militancy and did not get along with Bobby Kennedy...
...Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, to join the U.S. delegation to Moscow. But both Dirksen and Hickenlooper decided to. stay home. The Republican Senators Kennedy tapped instead were two fellow New Englanders, Aiken and Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, who are high-ranking members of important Senate committees but who wield little influence among Midwestern Republicans. To make Dirksen's absence seem less conspicuous, Kennedy decided to leave behind the Democratic opposite number, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. The Democratic Senators picked to go to Moscow: Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee; Rhode Island's John Pastore...
...Soaky"-several pennies worth of bubble bath in a cartoon-character plastic toy container, retailing altogether for 690. "Kids wield a lot of influence in the choice of a toothpaste," adds an executive of Lever Bros., whose Stripe appeals to the whole household through the children's interest in color and flavor...