Word: catalystic
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...Great Emancipator explained that the seeds for his sexual theory of perfect conception through mental purity came from his mother, who had four children. He has taken 30 years to develop it. Gates noted that what his theory needs to get it going is a catalyst--belief by only a small percentage of women...
...next few months Rhee proved far more of a catalyst than Hodge had bargained for, and not at all what the general had wanted. At the time of Rhee's return, 205 Korean political parties were registered with U.S. Military Government. Among them were the Forlorn Hope Society, the Supporters' Union for All Korean Political Actors, the Getting Ready Committee for the Return of the Provisional Korean Government and the Korean National Youth Movement, which called itself "the new Boy Scouts." ("The new Boy Scouts" soon had to be curbed as a menace to law & order...
Luciferin (an enzyme or organic catalyst) is responsible for the firefly's strange cold, yellow-green light. Not much is known about its complex chemistry but Dr. Strehler points out an extraordinary fact. The light that comes from luciferin has been analyzed spectroscopically and turns out to be very similar to the fluorescent glow given off by riboflavin (vitamin B2) when it is irradiated with invisible ultraviolet...
Robert A. Toft, Republican from Ohio, 60, his party's policy leader and the Senate's finest legal mind. He is often the catalyst of Senate thinking. His abrasive mind can find the soft spots in an argument or a plan as surely as a dentist's drill. Ragging in debate, blunt to the point of rudeness, honest to the point of indiscretion, he holds his leadership by sheer intellectual prestige. He is a powerful check on any ill-advised experiment; in fact, his more liberal colleagues would be the first to admit that, while fighting them...
...many ways it is an astonishing phenomenon; few areas of the world have experienced so much change with such little pain. Oil (plus natural gas) has been the catalyst. The presence of potential bonanzas under the soil inspired the beginnings of Texas industry; modern oil production (roughly one-quarter of the world's production) built it. And the steady stream of oil wealth, along with the income-tax generosity of the U.S. Government,† sprayed money off in dozens of different directions...