Word: potentate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steam locomotive was, as everybody knows, a potent factor in the historical growth of America, spreading with the railroad into the everyday existence of people everywhere. Few early observers were friendly toward this snorting monster; they found it smelly, noisy, and even dangerous to the established horse and buggy order. But, as time went on, the steam engine became a familiar and even nostalgic item on the national scene...
...conference thereupon whooped through a farm resolution as politically potent as it was economically shameless. Its principal point: larger federal stockpiles of farm commodities (present Government-held surpluses: $7.3 billion) should be permitted by law and "such carryover [should] be removed from consideration when establishing prices in the marketplace." Its economic meaning: the farmer should get top subsidies even while commanding top market prices. Its political meaning: whatever the cost to the taxpayer, Midwestern Democrats plan to leave no political row unplowed in their work toward a bumper vote crop...
...told an audience of voters contemptuously, "the Nacionalistas will still control the Senate, so you had better vote for us because a Liberal candidate won't be able to get you anything." Young José, a second-generation Philippine politician whose father is still a potent force in the Senate, is at one and the same time the Liberals' greatest asset and their greatest liability...
...announced by Chicago's G. D. Searle & Co. (TIME, May 6); this also had stop-and-go power over the menstrual cycle. Last week three drug manufacturers joined the New York Academy of Sciences in sponsoring a Manhattan conference which received progress reports on the varied and potent effects of several "progestagens" (progesterone-like hormones). Outstanding items...
...were being denied the right to pass across Indian territory to get to two tiny Portuguese enclaves, Dadra and Nagar Aveli. Last week a case reached court-and though the Portuguese right to be in Goa was not at stake, the subject kept coming up. India had hired a potent battery of British lawyers, including former Socialist Attorney General Sir Frank Soskice, to argue that travel inside its own borders is an internal affair of India and that the court has no jurisdiction. The Indians also complained bitterly that the Portuguese had "sneaked" the case before the World Court within...