Word: exert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decision to keep the Government in the grain business was a victory for Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan, who does not want to diminish CCC's power to exert control over grain markets. The election, Brannan apparently thought, had given the Administration a mandate to continue the kind of Government trading that Congress had frowned...
...powerful state in Palestine as a direct threat to the Suez Canal, to the vital oil deposits in Iraq, and to the proposed airbases in the Negeb. For these purely military reasons, plus the fact that the Middle East is the one remaining area where Great Britain can exert Imperial power, the British have consistently supported the Arab cause and have pressed for adoption of the inequitable Bernadotte partition of Negeb...
Alben Barkley's old job as Senate majority leader would probably fall to Illinois' tall, personable Scott Lucas, Senate whip and Barkley's understudy. Barkley, himself, was expected to step down frequently from the presiding officer's dais to exert his considerable talent for cloakroom leadership. Texas' Tom Connally, 71, who has lost some of his shaggy hair because of shingles, will take back the big job of chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he has labored in comparative obscurity for the last two years under the shadow of Michigan's Arthur...
These technical obstacles alone should not determine the fate of the Red Book, however. Council funds at present are adequate to support the book, and the recent Freshman Affairs report shows how to case the personnel problem. University Hall does not exert overpowering pressure one way or another. (Den Leighton would like to see the Red Book stay, but he will not try to interfere in the Council's business.) Logically, therefore, the Council should consider the tastes of the Freshmen...
...Braves-Red Sox issue been brought to a boil via the world series, much bad blood would have flowed in the streets. Most of it would have been the blood of Braves partisans, for Sox enthusiasts take full advantage of their numerical superiority to exert majority tyranny...