Word: wield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After his peak in the late twenties, Ruth's knees began to give out from under his great body. His powerful arms could still wield a bat, but his legs could no longer carry him around the bases or the outfield. He was released from the Yankees in 1934 but his obstinacy carried him into the 1935 season with the Boston Braves. In a game against the Pirates on May 25, 1935, the Babe hit his last three home runs...
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER: Denis Healey, 57, a wartime commando major and former Defense Secretary from 1964 to 1970. He now concedes that he is "a gamekeeper turned poacher." He is likely to wield a light ax where defense is concerned but supports orthodox financial policies...
...nurse's role. The boy will need chemotherapeutic injections for a time to ward off a recurrence of the cancer that necessitated amputation of his leg last November. Doctors suggested that a nurse visit the Kennedy home, but the Senator demurred. Instead, he is learning to wield the needle himself so that he can give the painful and unsettling treatments and help allay the boy's fears...
...years ago of Lin Piao, the Defense Minister who was killed trying to defect to the Soviet Union. All but one of the transferred commanders had held, in addition to their military positions, the top politi cal jobs in their areas. Significantly, the three commanders left in their posts wield no such political power...
...most part the processes of national self-determination and modernization in the third world cannot occur simultaneously. The terms themselves are contradictory. Modernization, by current definition, represents an attempt by the powerless to conform to what is accepted as the best and most efficient by the nations that wield the most power. And this is the problem that faces those "backward, underdeveloped" nations of the third world for whom the superpowers are so willing to supply technological know-how: Western science and technology developed as an outgrowth of the social setting in which they were born: Western Europe. The importation...