Word: potentate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body will be considerably less than that, but will be a potent force among the 2,000,000 Orthodox Jews in the U.S.-not by weight of numbers but of influence; it claims to include in its 150,000 membership a solid majority of the U.S. Orthodox rabbinate. A.R.Z.O. will try to strengthen Jewish religious life in the U.S., is especially concerned with expanding Hebrew schools and training more Hebrew teachers. The organization will also raise money to support religious schools and settlements in Israel.* Elected president of the A.R.Z.O. was Russian-born Rabbi Isaac Stollman of Detroit...
...advertiser's yardstick to beat the drums of publicity, plugging ratings from whichever system made them look best and playing up rating feuds, e.g., CBS's Ed Sullivan v. NBC's Steve Allen on Sunday at 8 p.m. They made the rating seem even more potent than it really is-and believed the illusion themselves. Since NBC began trailing in the ratings, it has sensibly (if belatedly) dropped the habit of regularly publicizing the figures, but the habit clings where the ratings are higher...
Other Cadet strength lies in the backstroke and in a potent medley relay team. The backstroke, recently a weak spot for the Crimson, may show renewed strength, since Bill Murray and John Trainer continue to improve...
...credit would intensify upward pressures on prices. Too little could needlessly starve some activities . . . Creating more money will not create more goods. It can only intensify demands for the current supply of labor and materials. That is outright inflation." No sooner had Martin finished his statement than the politically potent questions began flying fast from Chairman Patman and his subcommittee colleague, Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney. Their substance...
...believable embodiment of a jealous beauty who was willing to make the supreme sacrifice for her lover, and who carves up a would-be seducer with a fruit knife. In addition to her flawless acting, Callas was in full command of her remarkable voice-never luscious, but potent as TNT. She might have been good under any circumstances, but playing opposite a tangibly evil George London as Scarpia and supported by an orchestra made almost superhuman by Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, she left the audience limp...