Word: potentate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later years, though still a Communist, Dery turned the power of his pen against bloodthirsty Stalinism, became a close adviser of the moderate Imre Nagy. As a leader of the potent Writers' Union, he was a powerful voice behind the revolution that brought Khrushchev's tanks rumbling into Hungary last year...
Outraged leaders of the nation's potent Federated Chamber of Industries bore down on Pretoria to protest De Klerk's interference with their business. De Klerk backed down and postponed enforcement of his order, but the garment workers' union was not satisfied. Last week it announced that some 12,000 Negro garment workers in the for-whites-only classification will "stay away from their jobs" (Negroes are not allowed to "strike" in South Africa) to drive home a hard fact seldom faced by Strydom's fanatics: a strict application of apartheid would paralyze South Africa...
...that after a few days the patients stopped responding to the treatment and soon relapsed into their former state. Harvard University's Dr. Mark D. Altschule guessed that this was because of big beef protein molecules in the extract. He set himself the job of isolating the potent fraction in the pineal glands from this kind of protein...
...potent drug, chlorothiazide (trade-named Diuril by manufacturers Merck Sharp & Dohme, though not yet released for general prescription use), taken by mouth, can be highly effective as a diuretic, stimulating the body to get rid of excess water, which causes edema (dropsy) in patients with enlarged and failing hearts. Columbia University's Dr. John H. Laragh and Dr. Felix E. Demartini reported that chlorothiazide works well by itself, also increases the effectiveness of other diuretics when given in small-dose combinations. In three cases where no drug worked alone, a combination did the trick. The A.H.A...
...Potent Arm. Mayor Lawrence appeared on the municipal scene just when Financier Richard K. Mellon (Mellon National Bank, Gulf Oil, Alcoa) and a platoon of lesser tycoons were preparing to rip their dowdy old city apart and rebuild it. Lawrence proved to be a valuable political ally. He ordered strict enforcement of smoke-control ordinances, pressured Democrats at Harrisburg and Washington to pass laws and approve appropriations that helped build new roads, bridges and dams. His reward: the business community's gratitude. Four years ago Lawrence's Republican opponent was not even invited to participate in the face...