Word: wielder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chapple, slugging second baseman and clean-up hitter, and Jack Wallace, stalwart moundsman and potent stick wielder, paced the Crimson nine at the plate during the summer season, figures compiled today revealed...
...accord's importance lay in its implication: Britain admitted the right of the De Gaulle regime to act with authority not only for the French Empire but for the homeland. Military necessity made the admission inevitable. As leader of the second-greatest colonial empire, holder of vital bases, wielder of an army of 400,000 and link to Europe's biggest resistance group, the Algiers government had to play a key part in the coming Allied invasion. Plans were well advanced. The Committee would send an army into France, pay for relief supplies, devise a currency, probably administer...
...shrewd Prime Minister for some clue to his election strategy. They knew that they might find the key to it in Parliament, where he has sat for 28 years. A cold personality to the average voter, Mr. King takes on more color on the front bench, becomes a calculating wielder of the oratorical stiletto...
Since World War II began, professional mourners have repeatedly hung crepe on the door of small business. But small business bullheadedly refused to die. Last week this stubborn survivor got a shot in the arm. Needle wielder was droopy-lidded, deadpan Robert Wood Johnson, boss of the Smaller War Plants Corp. The shot: a new plan for civilian production in small plants...
...Wielder of the haymaker was able Harold Glenn Moulton, head of the Brookings Institution (famed for its economic studies), who wrote a 93-page pamphlet, The New Philosophy of Public Debt, to prove that deficit spending and boundless public debt lead either to totalitarianism or to debt repudiation; that without "a stable system of public finance ... in the U.S., and also in other countries, the foundation stone for international reconstruction will rest on quicksand...