Word: potente
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...gone from the U.S. and nearing extinction throughout the world. The beginning of the end for the virus can be dated precisely. On April 12, 1955, a Salk colleague announced that a vaccine developed by Salk and tested on more than 1 million schoolchildren had proved "safe, effective and potent." As a result of the nationwide effort of mass inoculation that followed, new cases in the U.S. dropped to fewer than...
...potent is Iran's variety of militant political Islam? To Bill Clinton and Warren Christopher, it is one of the most dangerous forces on earth. But listen to what an Iranian housewife named Hafezeh has to say. Earlier this month, just before the sixth anniversary of the death of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, she sat on a carpet inside his gold-domed mausoleum. Under her loosely draped chador she wore blue jeans and a bright turquoise blouse...
...Ancient Eight's top pitchers; swimmer Brian Younger won the high-point award at the Eastern Sprints in his first year of competition; diver Lara Jacobson placed second at Easterns and earned a U.S. Olympic team try-out with a sixth-place finish at the Mobile Diving meet; potent Mike Ferrucci waited just eight seconds into the lacrosse season before notching his first goal...
...Book about Alcohol and Like, Love, Lust: A view of Sex & Sexuality, Langone has exposed the human drama behind the gleaming facade of the "marble white palace" of Harvard's Longwood campus. In doing so, he is perhaps the first writer to enliven the medical profession in such a potent, entertaining and realistic manner...
Freshman pitchers Tasha Cupp and Heather Brown were practically unhittable in shutting down a potent Eli attack. That weekend enabled the Crimson to finish second in the league, as Yale's. only other Ivy League losses came at the hands of Princeton...