Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nowhere was protest more prevalent or potent than in the U.S. Though the ghettos were spared the major racial holocausts of previous years, Martin Luther King's assassination ignited disturbances in 168 cities and towns and brought arsonists to within three blocks of the White House. Nearly everywhere, black citizens demanded the right to run their own communities, their own welfare programs, their own schools; and a growing number of militant Negro groups armed to protect themselves from what they considered an incurably hostile white society...
...deeper structural reforms will have tougher going, especially in West Germany, where farmers tend to be more backward and conservative than anywhere else in the Common Market. Meanwhile, the plan received a major boost last week, when eleven of 13 Common Market commissioners voted to approve it. Though potent farm groups and individual governments have yet to be persuaded, many European officials were agreeing, at least in private, with what Mansholt was saying aloud...
...adaptation from the French script by Jay Allen might have been wittier, but it is never less than civilized fun, and Abe Burrows has directed the show with crisp agility. As a tonic for middle-aged matrons, Forty Carats is so potent that canny David Merrick may have to institute extra matinees to handle the crush...
...Rich, by definition have wealth and control over the business sector. Indirectly but, in a potent way, the Rich, because they have wealth and power in business, also have power in government institutions and the communications branch...
...despite the recent heavy losses, still has $4.1 billion in gold and reserves, and in addition to that the $2 billion credits made available in Bonn by the Ten and nearly another $1 billion open to it in Basel's Bank of International Settlements. Taken together, those are potent resources to throw into a speculative battle...