Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Graubard's attack on Marcuse is, if anything, too potent...
Staying Hitched. Born in 1868 in a mud-chinked cabin near Blossom Prairie, Garner took to politics like a bird dog after quail. In 15 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, he rose to Speaker; then in 1932 he made a bid for the presidency. With potent support from William Randolph Hearst, Garner held the Texas and California delegations until the fourth ballot, then threw his votes to F.D.R., in a deal that made him the ticket...
...Achebe writes of Ibo civilization as something not simply to be supplanted and forgotten. The story centers on a religious chief, virtually a god to his tribe, whose most potent magic is achieved through a sacred python. Though he distrusts Christianity, he allows an earnest, not more than ordinarily obtuse district officer to send one of his sons to a mission school. To the chief's horror, the Christianized boy zealously imprisons the sacred python in a box. "An abomination has happened," cries one tribesman. "Today I shall kill the boy with my own hands," says the chief...
Munro shouldn't have any worries about Princeton's scoring. The New Jerseyans have only managed two Ivy goals so far in four games, but they might be able to stall the none-too-potent Harvard offense...
...victory was Harvard's sixth straight this year and its second over M.I.T. It won the last game on Tech's small field, 3-2. Yesterday the potent Crimson offense took advantage of the wide open spaces of its larger field and pumped in eight goals...