Word: propel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lowenstein, whose weight and height both considerably increase when he puts on football cleats, is the little man who played such a large hand on last season's freshman team. By hand or by foot, he can propel the ball with admirable accuracy...
...clock tomorrow morning, about 280 members of a senior class of 350 will gather in flat-hats and discreetly pinned-up graduation gowns to roll their hoops and propel their forms across the hilly Waban track...
...vehicle selected to bear this man of nonviolence on his last journey was a weapons carrier. Those in charge of the arrangements, recalling Gandhi's opposition to machines, did not let the weapons carrier's motor propel it; men with ropes dragged it through New Delhi's streets. The men were soldiers, and soldiers headed the cortege. Police, about whom Gandhi also had had his doubts, lined the streets. Overhead, military airplanes, built to drop bombs on people Gandhi loved, dropped rose petals on Gandhi's bier. Tanks and armored cars rumbled behind...
...poaching in their fields. Now Lewis was free to pour into District 50 the $200,000-plus which U.M.W. has been paying yearly to the A.F.L. treasury. In District 50, headed by John's 58-year-old brother, Denny, the' Great Man had a juggernaut to propel, if he chose, toward a third major labor organization...
...that crews are built, not born, holds sway on the River, Bolles spent the morning and afternoon workouts, which began on Monday and lasted through Saturday, trying to find the right man for the right slot in his Varsity boat--not seeing how fast the brawniest eight men could propel themselves through the water. As the crew candidates--everybody is still a candidate--grow tougher, the stroke goes up, but from the pre-vacation beat of 24 or 26, the maestro of the slides and stretchers has never pushed things above 30 to the minute...