Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their property in good shape and guarantee more rights to tenants, such as allowing them to put their rent in escrow until necessary repairs were made. The measure, which drew a record number of voters for an off-year election, had twice been rejected by the city council. The prime movers behind the unsuccessful drive were students at the University of Iowa, who live off campus and feel victimized by the owners of their dwellings...
Spirit was the trademark of the women's soccer team this year. Brynteson, only a sophomore, was one of the most productive scorers on the young team from her left wing position. Julie was one of the prime reasons that Bob Scalise's troops posted their outstanding 9-2-1 record this fall, as her well-placed crosses and booming shots confounded opposing goalies throughout the season. The Minneapolis native will share the captain's duties with Paula Levihn who, it must be admitted, lives in Kirkland House...
...toughest problem for the team will be getting adjusted to the contact aspect of the sport," commented Tania Huber, a prime mover in organizing the women stickers. "Most of the women are going to be gun-shy initially because that puck is scary when it's blasted down...
...easy to categorically state that money was the prime motivating factor driving men to create machines that would link the fate of each part of the country to that of the whole--the original railroad, the telegraph, the telephone and all their updated versions. Edison, certainly, was driven by a cause larger than money. He was an experimenter of prodigious energy, diving headlong into every problem that presented itself. He worked so hard at inventing that he rarely had time to spend the money he made, except on lab equipment or perhaps a new house. For Edison, money was simply...
Unlettered and unskilled, Lee compared himself favorably with the great men whose biographies he read, such as Mao Tse-tung and John F. Kennedy. He declared that in 20 years he himself would be President, or maybe Prime Minister, of the U.S. Such a rich fantasy life had to be concealed from the real world, so Lee became a compulsive liar and profoundly distrustful, like his mother. As McMillan points out, his personality made him an unlikely recruit in an assassination plot that would require accepting orders, obeying plans and working with coconspirators. Instead, she believes he acted alone...