Word: potentate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong marathoner pulled to with-in five yards of Reider going up the hill, but with one-half mile of flat running to go, Reider applied his potent finishing kick, and opened up ground on the slower Canadian. At the finish line, Reider, who led for most of the 4.4 miles, won going away by 20 yards...
Tufts unrolled a previously well-guarded potent running attack Saturday as the Jumbos trampled an inept Bowdoin squad, 23 to 0. The Crimson meets Tufts in its season opener Saturday...
Warns Bill Martin: "Inflation leads to deflation and costs people their jobs. Our biggest bugaboo is unemployment." Eleusinian Mysteries. To lay this bogey, Martin is vigorously wielding the potent weapons at his command. Although every man, woman and child...
...blends a good sense of practical politics with a fairly idealistic view of "good government." Typical Finneganisms: "Good government is good politics." "There should be a reward for those who make a consistent effort for the party. When men have an ability in their jobs and also are a potent political force and are really interested in it, why shouldn't they get a job? More often than not, they give better service than some nonpartisans...
...other side of British policy-the political and economic promises given Kenya's nonwhites that most distressed Grogan. Three months ago, still a potent member of the legislative council, Grogan made a final bid to halt Britain's plans for giving the Kenya blacks a greater say in their own government. With calculated absence of tact, he let it be known that the plans were well rooted in a secret government promise to keep the main seat of power firmly entrenched in the hands of an all-white council...