Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening-night sermon, his notices improved somewhat. "Hellfire occupies the same discreet place in his theology as it does in most current versions of Christianity," marveled the Daily Telegraph. While the refined may shudder at Billy's lowbrow mass-appeal methods, declared the Times, "new and potent techniques of persuasion are there to be used for either good or ill. And a church which comprehends pop services and ton-up* parsons has no cause to be overnice about Mr. Graham's methods...
...specifics of Administration policy-largely in hopes that they can thus zero in on Democratic divisions over the war as a campaign issue. The G.O.P. also regards itself as the natural political beneficiary of wage-price inflation, insisting for the record, if not by its votes, that the most potent cure would be a cut in domestic spending...
Most Sensitive Point. Amnesty's weapons are moral suasion strengthened with a potent brew of publicity. This is the kind of pressure, says President Peter Benenson, 45, that hits totalitarian regimes at their "most sensitive point, their public image, their trade image, their tourist image." By publicizing Belov in the British press, Amnesty forced the Russians to acknowledge his fate. Izvestia accused Amnesty of "presumption and arrogance in suggesting that a Western psychiatrist" be allowed to examine the prisoner...
Patiently, with elaborate deliberation, the generals argued on and on. They were backed by more than just their own determination. Bespectacled Liem Bian Khoen, 24, a leader in Djakarta's potent and demonstration-happy student organization, KAMI, warned that if no new Cabinet is named, "You shall see. We shall not just sit here," and Brigadier General Ibnu Subroto, army chief of information, agreed: "I hope that the President will give his consent. We have to deal with angry young men." On one point, at least, the students and the generals were in accord. Subroto announced that...
...Harvard, Leary began a program of experimentation with "consciousness-expanding" chemicals. Harvard got rid of him two years later, after 400 subjects had received 3,500 doses of psilocybin. But that was just the beginning of a wave of irresponsible experimentation and just plain playing around with the more potent LSD that is fast becoming a major problem not only among oddball cultists and kick-seeking college students, but among high school and prep school students as well (TIME, March 11). Last week, in the U.S.-Mexico border town of Laredo, Texas, Leary finally got his comeuppance...