Word: wield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ITALY. The new Italian Marxists draw their strength from a group of some 200 far-left organizations known collectively as "the extraparliamentary left," from the 14 universities (out of a total of 43) in which they wield major influence, and such cultural crannies as the Italian artistic community, which is almost totally Marxist. Still, they have not made much headway against the Italian Communist Party, which has a membership of 1,500,000 and won 27% of the vote in last year's election. The party has chosen to march to real power by proving itself effective and responsible...
...more creative method of disposing of the condemned: give them razor blades in the hope that they would not use them merely to shave. Alternatively, he suggested dispensing anesthetic pills, to be followed by old-fashioned beheading. Never a man to shirk his public duty, Guinness even offered to wield the ax himself...
...film society members say they feel it is to their advantage to cooperate with the professional theaters because of the theaters' potential power to withhold films from the societies. Cyrus I. Harvey '47, owner of the Harvard Square, Brattle Square, and Central Cinemas is in a good position to wield this power. Harvey is one of the founding partners of Janus films, a major distributor of foreign films to both professional and non-professional groups. Janus often checks with Harvey's manager, Robert St. George, to okay a film before sending it to a Harvard society...
...longer scared by the thought of Soviet domination. Mitterrand has not repeated an early pledge that his Socialists were committed to an "indestructible" five-year union with the Communists that would prevent any government from ruling France without Communist participation. Instead he stresses that the Socialists would wield a majority over the Communists in the Assembly...
...asking Harvard to show a little charity, not so much to Bundy as to the rest of us. Reverse the Peter Principle and take Bundy back to the only job he can really do. Let him wield enormous power over such questions as the anti-spider campaign at the Geology Building and cost-defectiveness in Faculty Club horsemeat-procurement policies. The odds are, I suspect, that I (and a lot of others) will somehow benefit. At the very least, I will be so relieved that I might give an enormous sum to the Harvard College Fund...