Word: potentate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chamberlin and Reischauer also conflicted over disposition of anti-Communist North Korean prisoners. Reischauer felt that the Communists misunderstood the prisoners' wishes. "To them, all common people were on their side. This violent refusal to return is most embarrassing to the Reds, and a potent propaganda weapon...
...runs. But when it came to offensive work, a former defensive back named Henry McKenna was barely adequate on offense. Thus it would be hasty to judge the Green's passing game from this workout, for with Miller throwing to these ends, the Dartmouths will be a much more potent group...
...After seven patient years of failure, Britain's Dr. Christopher H. Andrewes and his staff of common-cold experts reported that they had succeeded in growing cold virus outside the human body. Using human lung tissue, Andrewes & Co. cultivated the virus in incubators, proved it was still potent by infecting volunteers. Now the researchers see their way clear for close studies of the cold bug's growth and susceptibility to drugs. Their hope: an eventual cold-killing vaccine...
...Scoutmaster (20th Century-Fox) enacts one more battle in Clifton Webb's long movie war with children. Perhaps because he is opposed this time by as potent an organization as the Boy Scouts, Webb is considerably more mellow than in his Mr. Belvedere days: he strikes only one urchin (and then with only a blob of ice cream), and soon loses his heart to a frog-voiced eight-year-old (George Winslow). Webb takes over an unruly troop of Scouts because, as a writer of TV children's shows, he thinks he should know more about the spaceship...
...only two hours of debate, took only 45 minutes in the Senate. By last week the same men were apprehensive. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey disapproved of the bill, and into his office trooped a covey of hand-wringing moviemen to urge him to change his mind. While such potent Hollywood brass as Paramount's Barney Balaban, 20th Century-Fox's Spyros Skouras and Columbia's Jack Cohn were in mid-argument, the Secretary's phone rang. Humphrey answered it. Then he told the distinguished lobbyists that the President had just issued a memorandum of disapproval...