Word: wield
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...Kemp will wield the baton when the Deacons hold their formal spring dance on Friday, April 22, scheduled for 10:30 to 3 o'clock...
...whereas he was really slight, with thin lips, jet black hair, keen eyes, and a perpetually courteous air. Like Freidrich Nietzche, whom he most resembles in historical significance, he was an unhappy man. He seemed never to attain his ends, never to be near enough the throne to wield the sceptre, never able to find a champion for his cause. Patriotism devoured him, yet America had her Sam Adams whose name is far from disrepute...
...more serious is the fact that this amendment is potentially very harmful; it would destroy the influence which a revitalized American foreign policy could wield. As Secretary Woodring recently said, "Let us keep ourselves in position to use our powerful influence . . . to uphold international good faith, decency, and order, in the knowledge that only in a world that respects these underlying principles can democracies survive...
English A, although possibly a monster of boredom to several hundred fledglings unable to wield adverbs and prepositions, accomplishes this basic purpose. Those who wish to go further than the required course in composition carries them usually take English A-1, and this course presents a problem in teaching for the single reason that it contains men interested in two different kinds of writing...
...Gianninis made music all the time. The father, Ferruccio, was an oldtime opera singer who could boast that he had once sung with Patti. The mother, Antoinetta, played the violin. Daughters Euphemia and Dusolina sang. Son Francis had a cello when he was big enough to wield one. Son Vittorio practiced endlessly on the piano...