Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industry, which is already deeply involved in creating the technology that will push that conquest further. In the not very distant future, the chemists expect to produce clothes that last a lifetime, auto oil that never needs to be changed, paints that never chip or wear, fertilizer that stays potent for several years. Their labs are already at work on chemicals that enable crops to resist frost and drought, preservatives that keep food fresh for years without chilling, plastics tougher than steel, atomic automobiles, pills that prevent all infectious diseases and other pills that hold back old age by slowing...
...tiniest state in the Union, tucked away on the rocky New England coast, a young and, in national terms, little-known Republican Governor emerged last week as one of his party's most potent vote getters. He was John Chafee, 42, who was re-elected to a second term in Democratic Rhode Island with a plurality of 85,604 votes...
Germany has been brooding about her mines for years. Once the power source of the nation's industry and still a politically potent force, coal has watched its share of the country's fuel market plunge from 92% in 1950 to 49.8% today. Rising production and labor costs in the old mines are partially responsible, and so are cheaper foreign coal prices; U.S. coal, highly automated and easier to dig out, undersells German coal by $2 a ton in Germany, and only a miserly quota keeps it from flooding the German market. Coal's greater rival...
...Crimson loses, however, it won't be simply out of respect for the single wing's age or its long and glorious history; Princeton's attack is as potent today as it was in the age of the drop-kick...
...news could hardly be worse for a Crimson team that has yet to show a potent offense, Quarterback Richard Zimmerman passed will in last week's 14-12 loss to Boston College but the team totaled a skimpy 50 yards rushing...