Word: wield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Birmingham, Ala., blacks have elected a black mayor and wield much more power than in the days of the celebrated civil rights crusades. Yet black anger at the white-dominated police force is almost as intense as it was when Police Commissioner Bull Connor and his snarling dogs gained national notoriety...
...realities in South Africa in its argument not to support an IBM shareholder resolution forbidding computer sales to the South African government. The Corporation claims the resolution would prohibit sales to such harmless institutions as hospitals and schools. With such logic, the University will never take any steps to wield its shareholding power against the South African military, which buys three-quarters of its computers from IBM. Past experience shows the government orders computers for "harmless institutions" and then passes them on to places like population control centers...
...when Charles Darwin grappled with it in his The Descent of Man. How did the puny early ancestor of modern man defend himself against predators? More than 3½ million years ago, he stood only 120 cm to 140 cm (48 in. to 56 in.), too short to wield a heavy club effectively. For another million years or so, his brain was not developed enough to conceive of fashioning stone weapons. Yet despite the presence of far more powerful four-legged adversaries on the African savannas, he survived. Now a Dutch zoologist, Adriaan Kortlandt of the University of Amsterdam...
...Secretary was summoned for a consultation with Carter. Byrd politely insisted that Miller would have to conclude his talk with the Congressmen first, and Miller eventually sent word to Carter that the President would just have to wait. Said Connecticut Representative Robert Giaimo admiringly: "Byrd taught me how to wield a gavel...
...movie satirizing his mother's rule.) Returning to the capital from his new constituency in Amethi, he was greeted at New Delhi airport by several hundred vociferous supporters playing flutes, bugles and drums. Sanjay, who has long been his mother's most influential adviser, will wield additional power through a number of new M.P.s who were handpicked by him to run for Parliament...