Word: wield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the next two days, the President showed that these threats were backed by power and a willingness to wield it. Set in 24 motion by Kennedy's anger, the vast administrative arsenals of the Federal Government rolled into battle against the offending steel companies. FBI agents from Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department waked newsmen in the early morning to check on a reported statement by a steel company president (see PRESS). FBI men armed with subpoenas descended on the executive suites of steel companies to interrogate officers and carry off possibly incriminating documents (seven patrolling...
When Matsushita was told that he would be on TIME's cover. Tokyo Bureau Chief Don Connery warned him that the story must be critical as well as comprehensive. "Explore and analyze the economy and my company like a surgeon with a knife." Matsushita answered. "Wield your knife as you wish." The exploration on the spot was done by Connery; the story was written by Everett Martin and edited by Robert Christopher...
...past year in Laos, Iran, and Jordan for stories that displeased the censors. In Ghana, a local distributor, on his own initiative, prudently burned all copies of one issue that reprinted a cartoon from the Manchester Guardi an showing Nkrumah gagging the press. In Arab countries, censors sometimes wield their scissors as if they were scimitars. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Libya have confiscated or cut pages out of issues in recent months, and in Iraq the censor has objected to stories about Middle Eastern politics, to cartoons, to a classically painted nude, and to stories, and even...
...speech Tuesday Toomey cited the need to expose the great political influence which Harvard and M.I.T. wield. (It was rumored last year that the University's influence in Washington had been an important factor in getting Gov. Volpe to veto the stilts sale...
...Bank. Unhampered by the kind of legislation that restricts the scope of U.S. banks. West German banks combine the functions exercised in the U.S. by investment banking houses, commercial banks and savings banks, are also free to operate mutual funds and act as brokers. As a result, German bankers wield far more power than their U.S. counterparts. And as boss of his nation's biggest bank, Hermann Abs is the most powerful German banker...