Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seat in the state legislature in 1915, was easily elected Governor in 1925. Byrd soon established his credentials as a pragmatic Wilsonian liberal. During his four years in the statehouse, he turned the state's million-dollar deficit into a $4,000,000 surplus, fought the then potent Ku Klux Klan, and rammed through the South's first tough antilynching...
...Wechsberg examines seven of the world's leading merchant or investment bankers. Though he is himself the son and grandson of bankers, Wechsberg ignores a lot of the basics of the business and, with the exception of a chapter on Wall Street's Lehman Brothers, shortchanges the potent U.S. bankers to concentrate on those of London's City. But his stories have a richness of color and some details of remarkable deals that have turned money into factories, jobs and useful products for everybody's compound interest...
What most of them don't know is that the bins contain a potent pre-soaped solution designed to soak off sticky food particles that would otherwise become encrusted during the dishwashing process...
...from Southern California, heretofore obscure extremist candidates captured their party nominations for high office. These results, however, do not wholly substantiate the belief that the Goldwater nomination over two years ago was more than a political accident. Rather there is evidence suggesting that the white backlash has become a potent political factor in some areas, that many of those who voted for the President in 1964 have become disillusioned with his policies and their backers, and that right-wing candidates sometimes have inherent political advantages over their liberal or moderate opponents...
...point in his speech, Marcos confessed: "I have been hounded by criticism that I am much too pro-American." Nonetheless, Marcos and his countrymen are far from tame clients. Nationalism is the most potent political force among the 32 million people who inhabit the 7,000 islands of the Philippine archipelago, and the form it usually takes is anti-Americanism...