Word: potentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...batwomen were outscored 97-89 last year, and lost many of their later games in the final innings--in the case of the Ivy tournament contests against Brown and Princeton, in extra innings. So, many of last year's losses could have been wins had the team been more potent offensively...
...emergence of a potent scoring attack from a group of no-names who are trying to fill the shoes of the most talented lacrosse players in Harvard history. Graduation took the five laxwomen who turned the program into one of the nation's finest Last year. Harvard finished 12-4-1 and as a NCAA quarter-finalist...
...past, the threat of a termination in federal funds was government's most potent weapon with which to whip discriminatory institutions into line. Now, with all the teeth taken out of the ruling and the absence of an Equal Rights Amendment, women have virtually no recourse to legal protection during their years of education, having to rely instead, as one activist put it, "on good will rather than...
...liberal. Reubin Askew remains a blur, with low name recognition even among recent residents of his home state, Florida. Only Jesse Jackson, irrepressible and sometimes outrageous, seems to be gaining converts in his long-shot crusade. But while Jackson has shown that a black can be a potent force in the primaries, he seems more of a lever for black demands than a legitimate threat to win the nomination. His campaign is disorganized, and he delivers messages rather than programs...
That confrontation constituted the sum total of Lauro's one-act play produced off Broadway in 1981; one can see why she was encouraged to develop it to full length for Broadway. Calvin and Ginny may be symbolic representations, but they are also potent characters in their own right. The student's basic gentleness makes his rage, when it surfaces, all the more terrible to behold. The teacher's harassed decency makes the brisk cheer with which she tries to sell deceit to her self and her students the more poignant...