Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military base in the desert west of the Nile, President Gamal Abdel Nasser last week watched four Egyptian-made rockets roar upward into the clouds. The most potent rocket, named El Kaher (Conqueror), has a range of 360 miles and could land, said Nasser, "just south of Beirut." The area just south of Beirut is better known as Israel...
...product of eight months' study by a committee of nine alumni and two seniors, the report wheeled up a potent weapon of attack: money. Last year 94% of the school's 830 upperclassmen ate in the fraternity houses, and nearly half lived there as well. This brought in some $500,000 to run Williams' 15 stately houses. By slashing that income, the college would reduce fraternities to little more than social clubs...
...England. Pollen was blowing everywhere in the U.S. last week, and all over the country hay fever victims knew it. Sales of such over-the-counter antihistamines as Coricidin and Allerest climbed with the pollen indices. Noses itching and eyes stinging, patients ran to their doctors for the more potent prescription drugs. Almost three months before the debut of the most debilitating pollen of them all-ragweed-the hay fever season had arrived with a loud sneeze...
...powerful Harvard lacrosse team will meet an equally potent Princeton ten Saturday in what Crimson coach Bruce Munro has termed "the key to the Ivy League title." A varsity victory over the Tigers is a must for a successful season and could produce the first Ivy stick championship in University history...
...real function of music. Mr. Eisenberg does not talk in terms of form or period--these he calls only the "vocabulary" of music--, nor does he dwell on esthetic doctrine. His concern is for the expressive power of the art which he describes radiantly as "the most potent means of communication between...