Word: wielding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prime Minister Strydom, who is bound and determined that the whites shall wield all the power in a nation where they are outnumbered four to one, wanted to get the last non-white voters-the 45,000 colored (mixed-race) folk-off the white voting lists. The High Court said he could not, without a two-thirds vote in Parliament. So the Nationalists decided to pack the Senate to get the bill through, and to pack the court to make sure that it was held constitutional. At that point, many who agreed with Strydom's policy of white dominance...
Cambridge's gallant police force guarded both the people and the polls yesterday, but only through the kindness of the men in pin-striped suits who wield the city's power. With their colorful ties carefully knotted, the City Councilmen trouped into their meeting this Monday for a pre-election fan-fare. Also on hand was Police Chief Patrick F. Ready, who settled into his chair as the meeting came to order...
...Meeting Cassandra in person for the first time, says one old friend, is like being "involved in an extremely unpleasant motor crash." But neither his barbed manner nor the arrogance of his column is any accident. Says Cassandra: "I know how to be hostile, suspicious and skeptical. I can wield these unlovable qualities like a whip...
...advice. "Out of ... the political arena, a new and different President emerged-the man who led a political party to victory and retained in his hands the power of party leadership. That is, he retained it, like the sword Excalibur, if he could wrest it from the block and wield it." Presidential words carry great weight, said the ex-President, but they must be backed up by action: "Today there is the same need for a combination of words and action concerning the hysteria about Communism ... It is not the business of Congress to run the agencies of government...
...there is one parodist who seldom needs to wield this club over a self-anesthetized audience. Ira Wallach, who proved his wit in his "Hopalong Freud" series, has a new book, called "Gutenberg's Folly...