Word: wielder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yeah, yeah! No surprise. Good for real. Yeah, yeah!" added the bakery-crazed eclair wielder...
Although there are no seniors on women's squash this year, Moses feels the team will perform well under pressure. "The emphasis is on mental toughness," he said while sending another racquet-woman to do windsprints. The racquet-wielder groaned...
...other areas Kissinger was able to leave his mark as a wielder of American power. In Latin American, Kissinger presided over the American group that pursued destabilization of the Allende regime. This destabilization, along with efforts to prevent Allende from taking power both before and after he was elected, enabled the coup of 1973 to take place--a coup which resulted in the murder of hundreds including the Chilean President, and the torture and imprisonment of thousands. In dealing with the crimes of this regime, Kissinger pleads non-intervention; but it was American intervention that helped to create these conditions...
...Ford's operations outside the U.S. (with $8 billion in annual sales, the largest of any U.S. auto company). The arrangement appeared to be a setup that would allow some other executive to bridge the gap until a younger Ford can run the company. Best guess for the wielder of transitional power: the little-known Caldwell...
...ordinary yet startling as the seasons. The shaping powers of Autumn introduce themselves in the first sentence of the book as effortlessly as in nature: Time--arrested, slowed, kneaded by memory and chance, centuries disturbed like dust, recalled like a dream; Power--huge, inevitable, mysterious even to its wielder; Death--arriving at an unex-pected moment, as a carrion bird or in a penitent's garb; and, finally, the rituals of everyday life, expressed in the prepositional phrases, uncapitalized, unpersonified, that begin the book with "over the weekend" and end it with the drawing of the "uncountable time...