Word: wielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, brother of the eighth duke, restored the family dignity, whetted the sword that his greater son would wield. "He was a little man, full of vibrant nervous energy." Lord Randolph feared nobody-least of all Liberal Leader William Ewart Gladstone, whose fondness for the healthy exercise of axing trees he excoriated with pungent brevity: "The forest laments, in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire." Other of his brisk remarks have passed into the language, e.g., his description of snobbish businessmen as "lords of suburban villas . . . owners of vineries and pineries"; of Gladstone...
...crash grimly underscored the stacks of longstanding complaints about the U.S.'s air traffic control systems: CAA and military ground control are poorly coordinated, wield separate authority over an overcrowded air space (11,000 planes fly the U.S. skies in any hour of the day), and CAA itself is badly understaffed and underequipped. "We cannot excuse the Government," said angered U.A.L. President William Allan Patterson, "for trying to solve a problem with divided authority and responsibility. I can only say that I hope the conscience of those in the Government agencies involved is as clear as I believe ours...
...alone takes 112 subscriptions. So influential is Women's Wear that a four-line story on a back page about a dress that is selling well will bring dozens of inquiring phone calls from retailers around the country. Women's Wear does its level best to wield its power impersonally, never disparages any style, and like the other Fairchild publications runs no editorials. The result is a paper that is as plain as gingham and just as reliable...
...boyhood and his stock market coups. Biographer Coit labored with Baruch's blessing amid the "huge chaotic mass" of his papers, but they parted company in 1955 over questions of "interpretation." Her interpretation of Baruch's role as elder statesman is, in effect, that Baruch preferred to wield power indirectly without elective responsibility. He could hold down his famed park bench of authority without running for it every,,two, four or six years...
Unless Adenauer changed his mind at the eleventh hour, Erhard had achieved his long-cherished ambition to wield overall direction of the West German economy. Should he also land the vice-chancellorship, Erhard would emerge as the top Cabinet officer, increasing his ranking as possible successor to der Alte himself...