Word: potente
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...soul, the symbolic and mythogenic process, the psychic energy resources." It is an irony of the past decade, they point out, that mystical experience has again become a beneficent, transforming reality for great numbers of people-but it has been happening outside the major religious institutions. The most potent new "religious" movements of the decade have been led not by clergymen, they say, but by psychologists and psychiatrists...
...withdrawal of Nasser's support will not wither the fedayeen. Despite differences and setbacks, the guerrillas will continue as a potent force in the Middle East?an intruding hand capable of ruining any settlement. Ultimately, as even Hussein knows, the only way to defuse this threat is not by force of arms but by fulfilling the fundamental fedayeen demand for a Palestinian homeland...
...While the others contain GB, a colorless and almost odorless gas that can kill within minutes, it holds ten pounds of VX, a far more potent agent. The container was marked with an X so it would receive special handling. But the Army had all the boxes painted silver to reduce the heating effect of the sun, inadvertently obliterating the X-and the identity of the more lethal...
Best Man. Perhaps his most potent weapon is his considerable charm. A handsome man with a graying crew cut, Jim Buckley is affable and deferential, intelligent without the public hauteur of his brother Bill. "Jim is as firm as I am," says Bill, "but he never offends. I couldn't imagine Jimmy receiving a bad book review. Between the ages of 20 and 34, it was impossible to get my brother on Saturday-he was best man in more weddings than anyone in history...
Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, a backslid free trader, shrewdly senses the rise of protectionist sentiment among politically potent forces. The bill, which Mills expects to report out by month's end, would impose mandatory quotas on imports of foreign shoes and synthetic and wool textiles. Furthermore, it would force President Nixon to continue curbing oil imports by a quota system, rather than replace the quotas with a less restrictive tariff. The oil deal was wrapped up in eight minutes. Even that might be only the beginning. An omnibus provision authorizes the President to put quotas...