Word: potentate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dartmouth's Egil Stigum led a potent Green ski team to victory Sunday in the annual Harvard-Bromley Invitation Slalom Meet at Peru, Vt., as the varsity finished fourth out of a field...
Georgia's ex-Governor Herman Talmadge averages four speeches a week to civic and business groups, makes countless public appearances as president of the politically potent University of Georgia alumni association, conducts a weekly TV panel show. Georgia Spotlight, under a local tire company's sponsorship. But for all his activity. Talmadge has been uncommonly coy about making his long-expected announcement of candidacy for the U.S. Senate against Walter F. George. Some Georgians, in fact, have begun to ask if Herman really means...
...team's performance against Middlebury was typical of its season's play. The Vermont school, known more for its skiing facilities than for potent basketball teams, came into the I.A.B. in mid-December and after 40 minutes of exceedingly dreary play, departed with a 50-46 victory. The same two teams met later the same month on an unfamiliar Colby College court. This time the varsity broke the New England Tournament scoring record, totalled no fewer than 100 points, and found itself the winner by 49 points...
...SHELL (right), giving the motorists on Memorial Drive at Magazine Beach a vivid reminder that the day of judgment is not far off. Repairmen have been alerted and are expected to appear on the scene tomorrow to disenchant the "S". If the weather or the magic spell is too potent, the sign may remain in its unholy predicament, and, as the station's proprietor observed, "The (S) hell Oil people will be mighty mad." The proprietor stoutly denied that customers had perpetrated the outrage in protest against high gas prices...
...Conciliation Court is not unique; Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and Washington, among other states, have similar courts. But Burke's court has a potent basic weapon: his reconciliation contract. The lengthy form document (36 pages) begins with an agreement to forgive past injuries, and covers a long list of subjects, including the right to privacy ("In such matters as personal mail"), in-laws, sex, late hours, gambling, grudges, bringing home the paycheck ("The parties agree to preserve and exhibit to one another all pay stubs representing any earnings earned by them"), charge accounts and the silent or doghouse treatment. Each...