Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This particular form of social anxiety is the most potent of the "hidden persuaders" used
...Cabinet cleared Lavon of any responsibility. Furious at this disregard of his opinion, Ben-Gurion resigned as Prime Minister, forced his Mapai Party to choose between himself and Lavon. The party's central committee swiftly capitulated, booted Lavon out of his job as secretary-general of Histadrut, the potent Israeli labor federation. But audiences in Israeli movie houses booed news films of Ben-Gurion, cheered those of Lavon. Nevertheless, last week Ben-Gurion was prepared to resume his post as Prime Minister when he was disconcertingly balked: four of the six minority parties of his coalition flatly refused...
...preventing paralytic polio has ranged statistically from 75% to 90%. As Dr. Jonas E. Salk retorted: "The continued occurrence of polio is not due primarily to failure of the vaccine, but to failure to use it." But most authorities admit that for fuller protection, the U.S. needs a more potent vaccine, probably the Sabin oral type, which should be available within a year...
...pool records fell Saturday at the IAB as a Crimson bid to steal sole possession of the Ivy swimming crown was snuffed by the perenially potent Bulldogs. But despite the disappoining 43-52 defeat, no Harvard rooter could disparage the team's effort...
Sullivan is frankly out to make money, and the self-interest of this one man has been more potent than all of Harvard and Cambridge put together...