Word: wield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another junior sabre man, Ron Winfield, has speed and smooth technique but lacks bout experience. Senior John Gersh and sophomore Tony Abbott will wield their weapons at Holy Cross, but they will have to prove themselves in pre-Ivy bouts to crack the starting lineup...
...white-maned cheerleader exhorting the Stanford rooting section looked less like a student than, say, the dean of the Graduate School of Business. And the dean it was-Ernest C. Arbuckle, 55, voted Stanford's "red-hot prof" in a campus-wide poll and thereby condemned to wield the megaphone in the football game with Oregon. Arbuckle, who will take over as board chairman of the Wells Fargo Bank next year, forgot his ticket to the game and had to talk his way past a Pinkerton to get into the stadium...
...Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this, our battle cry, may have reached some receptive ear, and another hand may be extended to wield our weapons, and other men be ready to intone the funeral dirge with the staccato singing of the machineguns and new battle cries of war and victory...
...titular head of the crucial economics ministry, Wilson replaced supercautious Michael Stewart, 60, with Labor's fastest-rising star: lanky Peter Shore, 43. Though Wilson made it clear that he will run the show, Liverpoolreared, Cambridge-educated Shore will wield considerable power in shaping Britain's economic destiny. A left-of-center intellectual, Shore is a former research chief for the Labor Party who first began helping Wilson in 1955. An economist (as is Wilson), Shore becomes the youngest member of the Cabinet. In the past, he was eager to nationalize more British industry...
Visible & Viable. The amount of control conglomerates wield over their crazy-quilt acquisitions varies widely. Many of the leading ones keep their headquarters remarkably lean. Litton is proud of the fact that it runs its far-flung empire with a central staff-secretaries and all-of fewer than 250 people. Chairman Rupert C. Thompson Jr. of Textron Inc., a $1.1 billion-a-year complex that makes everything from Sheaffer fountain pens to Bell helicopters, houses his entire headquarters in 1½ floors of a small office building in downtown Providence. So decentralized is Dallas' fast-growing Ling-Temco-Vought...