Word: wielder
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...owned would surely have rusted to nothing. He admits, however, that the sword in question was engraved with the letter A. And he retails the scholarly notion that long before it belonged to the proprietor of Camelot it was the legendary Sword of Mars, said to make its wielder invincible, discovered on the Hungarian plain and owned by none other than Attila...
...hatchet wielder is the World Bank's new president, former Republican Congressman Barber Conable, who took office a year ago. Last week Conable was facing a revolt of staff members, who lodged a formal complaint with the bank's administrative tribunal, a seven-member body of distinguished jurists from around the world. "We have a lot of worried and unhappy people here at the bank," says Christopher Redfern, chairman of the World Bank Staff Association. The 75% of the employees who are from abroad are especially nervous. Reason: some of those laid off by the bank could lose their visas...
Reagan's approach revives a long tradition of American assertiveness in the hemisphere. As President Theodore Roosevelt, the original wielder of the big stick, said in 1904, "The Monroe Doctrine may force the U.S., however reluctantly in flagrant cases of wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power." During the 1920s, U.S. Marines were involved in extended occupations of Nicaragua, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In all, American forces have intervened 26 times in Latin America during this century...
...attitude. With The Sun Also Rises (1926), Men Without Women (1927) and A Farewell to Arms (1929), he had found himself in the unique position of being not only a best-seller but also a writer whom first-line critics intensely admired and respected. Younger writers all imitated him. Wielder of a style of unmatched clarity and precision, master of the art of conveying emotions, particularly violent ones, with an effect almost of first-hand experience, he seemed to have established himself as the most powerful direct influence on contemporary literature. After these three books, however, came the slump. Apart...
...White Gold Wielder, Donaldson...