Word: wield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wages for the strikers. But the Minneapolis strike raised a question that was even more disturbing than the strike's local effects: with the number of newspapers in the U.S. dwindling at a worrisome rate, has labor's ultimate weapon become too dangerous to wield...
...such platform opponents as Labor Leader Walter Reuther and Senator Hubert Humphrey. Last May he made the televised speech rebutting President Kennedy's Madison Square Garden appeal for a social-security-financed medicare bill. In the year before he assumes the A.M.A.'s presidency. Dr. Annis will wield great influence as president-elect...
...Atlantic civilization, for the freedom of the mind I offer a toast to the only nation that has waged war but not worshiped it, that has won the greatest power in the world but not sought it, that has wrought the greatest weapon of death but not wished to wield it; and may it inspire men with dreams worthy of its action...
Concluding his sermon, Gibson said, "Those who wield so powerful an instrument for the destruction of respect and confidence should have their authority challenged. How has the staff of the CRIMSON earned the right to cast this doubt among...
...inspectors, the plan introduces the new concept of zonal inspection, or sampling (TIME, March 23), to check treaty compliance on a random basis. Successive stages of the plan would be supervised by a U.N. disarmament organization (ultimately responsible to the Security Council). Eventually a U.N. "peace force" would wield all military power in the world except for minor law-enforcement units that each nation needs to maintain internal order...