Word: brandishing
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...Secretary Robert Anderson and Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon had a potent new persuader: the seeds of a "Buy American" policy in the cuts in U.S. spending abroad decreed last week by Dwight Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But it was unlikely that the travelers would be obliged to brandish this weapon. Unable to blink any longer the sobering fall in U.S. gold reserves, U.S. allies around the world had at last begun to move to the aid of the Western giant...
...ordinary cranes, but these are being replaced by a monstrous device called a transrector. Built by Hufford Corp. of El Segundo, Calif., it weighs 121,000 Ibs., costs $750,000. With its two engines and its five-man crew, it can lift a booster from deep underground and brandish it like a cigar. Its massive but sensitive arms can pin an egg down so delicately that the shell is not cracked, yet so firmly that the egg cannot be removed without breaking...
This is the time of year when some gridiron soothsayers boisterously brandish the tattered copy of their successful predictions; others cry softly in their beers, offering lame excuses for their prognosticatory failures...
This is substantially a salvage job; and if it is unpleasant, it will not be made easier by any partisan effort to brandish mistakes...
...first shy before crowds, he became their adored leader, gained the power to select the targets of the mob. to attract more people to join it, to manufacture its slogans, to brandish its raw, brutish power, to intimidate his adversaries. Yet if he were to abate that fury or convert it into a disciplined, responsible community, it would abandon him-the role would seek another hero. In the pungent Arabian Nights image: "He is a man born of a horse who has become the rider of the horse," and he could be unseated...