Word: potente
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...glimpsed for a moment, in the dark night, a primitive causality so shocking, so uncanny, that she shivered and froze. A world where the will was potent, not impotent: where it made, indeed, bad choices and killed others by them, killed them, deformed them, destroyed them...
...while it appeared that the booters would kick the habit with Nelson's potent foot. Midway through the opening period the Crimson standout took a pass off the head of freshman Alberto Villar and knocked an offspeed shot past the Williams goalkeeper...
...spurt came in the first nine minutes of the third quarter, when the Pistons outscored the Celts 21-4 to go ahead 63-53. Cowens picked up his fourth personal foul early in the quarter and had to play cautiously for the remainder of the contest. The usually potent scoring threat had but five points on the night...
...leadership by increasing the numbers of subcommittes, and were allowed to keep the Joint Economic Committee (largely liberal in it's economic outlook); the Republicans obtained the option of naming one-third of the committee staff and of receiving some separate funds. Third, poor people still are not a potent enough political force really to affect Congressional action. If the retention of the Veterans, Aging, and Joint Economic Committees can be explained by the power of their respective groups, the loss of the Nutrition Committee can be explained by the fact that poor people still are not an organized voting...
...Prize was given to Ireland's former Foreign Minister Sean MacBride, longtime chairman of AI's executive committee. There is no reason to criticize the duplicated honor. From its start 16 years ago as a letter-writing campaign by London Lawyer Peter Benenson, AI has become a potent force on world opinion. It now counts more than 168,000 members in 107 countries...