Word: wield
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...viewing current events through the prism of the Nazi and fascist past can be distorting. With the exception of Italy, neofascists wield no real power in any national parliament, and the Italian case is too much of a political quirk to be considered a harbinger of Europe's future. "The situation today is not at all the same as it was in 1933," says Karsten Voigt, a spokesman for Germany's opposition Social Democrats. "The problem in 1933 was not that there were too many Nazis but that there were too few democrats. Today we have enough democrats...
...Harvard students are no longer leaders, but followers. At the time we graduate, we do not have the will to confront a tired and hardened world with our youthful vigor. We are non-confrontationalists, consensus builders. We want nothing more than to please the men and women who currently wield the real-world's power, whether they go by the name boss or parent. In short, there is a general spirit of conformist malaise about Cambridge these days...
Harvard was able to contribute a run off of a double by Ann Kennon in the fourth which sent Liz Walker home, but the Friars continued to wield their bats with a mighty sway. The game was brought to a halt early in the fifth due to the eight-run mercy rule, the Crimson losing...
...takes an extraordinary amount of self-confidence to wield a scalpel with skill, but most surgeons never approach the audacity of Dr. Roger Poisson. From 1977 to 1990, the French-Canadian physician falsified data on scores of patients so that he could enroll as many people as possible in important research studies on the treatment of breast cancer. To conceal the deception from the trial's American coordinators, the former head of oncology at St. Luc's Hospital in Montreal kept a double set of medical files labeled "true" and "false." His office even submitted progress reports for one woman...
...introduction of Wisconsin bill AB 259, which would lower Wisconsin's drinking age to 19, will hopefully touch off a debate on two important national issues: the legitimacy of the current drinking age of 21 and, more generally, the amount of power the federal government should be able to wield over states...