Word: potently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each presidential cycle convinced that they have at last redefined their ideology, risen above the folly of faction and rediscovered the magic formula to create a national majority. The jaunty confidence of the Atlanta convention and the euphoria that accompanied summer polls pointing to a Dukakis landslide are a potent illustration of how deeply self-deception is embedded in the party's soul. Each presidential pratfall comes as a stunning surprise, since the Democrats stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that around 1968 or 1972 they ceased to be the nation's natural governing party. The myth structure that surrounds the victories...
...abiding citizens of the ghetto. Doubtless the G.O.P. would have exploited Dukakis' furlough policy if Horton were white. Yet the glee with which Bush's campaign team leaped upon the Horton affair belies its denials that it intended to tweak white prejudices. In Horton, Bush's staff found a potent symbolic twofer: a means by which to appeal to the legitimate issue of crime while simultaneously stirring racial fears...
While many friends declined to label the first-year Cornell graduate student a genius, they said hard work and an incredible enthusiasm for the subject created a potent programming ability. They said, however, that any computer graduate student was capable ofcreating the virus that entered the NationalSecurity Agency's computer system, haltingterminals at many of the premier researchinstitutions in the country and the Pentagon...
...satirical japery and for more plays of the kind they used to enjoy -- elegant talk, beautiful clothes, faintly risque hints of extramarital indiscretion. They want entertainment to affirm life, not scrutinize it. Having sampled truth, they prefer illusion. Atop the coffee table, looking innocuous yet posing a threat so potent that a grown daughter claims to hear it "ticking," is yet another of the son's kind of play. This one is overtly about the family, and he has come to ask their permission to let it be produced...
Harvard crew team members say that while the smell is not as consistently bad as it was earlier in the month, it remains potent...