Word: wielding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...close friend is the U. S. prelate who seems destined to become the Cardinal Gibbons of this generation: Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York. The two future archbishops were ordained together on May 14, 1916 in Rome's Church of St. Apollinaris, are both likely to wield an increasing influence...
...invested in a cigaret factory. Now factory and fortune belonged to the Standard Tobacco Company. Asa still had a job with Standard, but he never knew for how long. His wife, plain-faced Lavinia, had stooped to marry him. Later she developed a heart ailment that enabled her to wield an invalid power that she had never known in healthier days. Asa's conscience is her slave. Sometimes he succeeds in sneaking off to spend Sunday with Kate Oliver on her river farm. His hope is that some day Uncle William will die and leave Lavinia a legacy. When...
Whatever the wave of the future might be, he was on the crest of the present. To some he was a monstrous symbol-he was State Socialism, or Governmental paternalism incarnate, a man with powers too great for any man to wield. To others he was a figure of awful benevolence: the far-off giant in Washington who had saved their farms or banks or railroads or mines; who had rehabilitated stores, factories, schools, shops and homes after earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, or after financial disasters just as catastrophic...
...Japanese superstition holds that toads wield a dangerous hypnotic magnetism over humans, and Japanese say that like a toad Toyama pulls and pushes young men into these plots and assassinations. Born in a frenzy-inclined community on Kyushu Island, he was raised in the "school of heroes" of Miss Takaba, a unique female warrior who wore two swords and swung two hot little fists. In his youth Toyama evaded and broke successive apprentice ships, embarked on a self-righteous outlawry something like Robin Hood's, and about 1894 established the foundations of the Black Dragon Society...
...United States enters the war Sidney Hillman will wield the power, according to the Socialist candidate, which "would be a major catastrophe, for Hillman is as complete a Machiavelli as ever walked the earth." Roosevelt if elected, may very well carry labor along with him into a dictatorship. it was forecast, and in this Hillman was described as probably a potent helper...