Word: wield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon's surrogate in this enterprise ?and the man who must actually wield the guns on the way out of the bar?is General Creighton W. ("Abe") Abrams, 56, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam. A veteran tank commander with a jut-jawed, no-nonsense air, Abrams is pursuing a strategy of withdrawal that would be familiar to any student of cavalry operations: give way gradually but strike continually at the enemy, harass his troops, destroy his supplies and keep him off balance. Moreover, Abrams is trying to replace U.S. ground forces with U.S. planes and South Vietnamese soldiers...
Their entire life they wield the broom to muddle up useless things...
Because of the force of De Gaulle's imposing personality and keen insight, France came to wield disproportionate power (in 1959. it had a medium-size population of 47 million and a G.N.P. of $48.6 billion). He recognized earlier than most that the nuclear standoff between the U.S. and Russia afforded other countries considerable room for maneuver. While enjoying the protection of the U.S. nuclear umbrella, he attacked American economic penetration of Europe, and unsuccessfully sought to undermine American business expansion by trying to persuade other countries to reject the dollar in favor of a return to the gold...
...glories of being a Governor have largely passed away. No Governor since Franklin Roosevelt has gone on to the presidency; a wise man who covets the White House today aims for the spotlights that play on the Senate. Though the men in the statehouses continue to wield enormous power over patronage and purse strings, their public careers are in constant peril due to the generally parlous condition of state finances and the rising demand for state services...
...pioneered nonaligned summitry with a 1961 conference in Belgrade, was there, resplendent in a vanilla-white suit. But Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, impresario of the Cairo summit of 1964, was busy at home, and his absence seemed to underscore the fact that the nonaligned countries no longer wield the influence they once did when the U.S. and Soviet Union assiduously wooed uncommitted nations...