Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hegemony. From the dry Western wheatfields has come a potent Republican challenger, former Governor Henry Bellmon, 46, a well-to-do Billings rancher who acts like a hayseed but in fact is the shrewdest political operator in the state. Bellmon built a vi able G.O.P. in Democratic Oklahoma, overcame a 4-to-l registration gap, and carried the state for Richard Nixon in 1960 and himself in 1962. A Marine veteran of Iwo Jima who does not drink, smoke or swear, he delighted the backwoods by scorning a "monkey suit" at his inauguration. As Oklahoma's first G.O.P. Governor...
...increased 20% in the eleven secessionist states since 1948, black voter registration has risen more than 500%, to an estimated 3,250,000 for this year's election. Industrialization and legislative reapportionment have given new strength to the cities and suburbs. The Republican Party is again a potent force; but it wears dramatically contrasting faces in different states, and has lost most of the Negro support that once formed its core. The Democrats meanwhile are being pulled apart by the opposing forces of reaction and moderation...
...California's Governor could hardly be faulted, as he was this year, for inexperience. By the same token, his luster might dim with so much exposure to some of the nation's most corrosive problems. In the meantime, whether Nixon wins or loses, Reagan will be a potent spokesman for conservatism, both in the party and in the country...
...Shanbrom foresees a day when patients will enjoy still greater convenience. Some batches of AHF concentrate have been made 1,000 times more potent than plasma. Eventually, Brinkhous is confident, this will become the standard AHF, so safe and stable that hemophilia victims will be able to carry it around and inject it themselves, into muscle, just as diabetics now do with insulin...
...capitalistic journalist whom most people had been taught for two decades to regard as little better than a Western spy." This time, being from the West was something of an advantage, and Forbath was happy to be offered not only tea by the Russians but the clear, potent and ever-present slivovice that Czechoslovaks lavish on their guests...