Word: propell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harold Washington, still revelling in his election as Chicago's first Black mayor swept through Boston Sunday in an effort to bolster minority voter registration and propel Black mayoral candidate Melvin H. King into City Hall this fall...
...Village," which slows to a crawl before springing into a bouncy dance number, "586," and the clarion cry "I see danger, danger, danger," falls into the first category. Like "Temptation," "The Village" softens up the eternal beat by relying more on programmed keyboard rhythms than on electronic drums to propel the song. But the treatment seems forced and the not-quite-that-catchy hook is shoved down the listener's throat until getting a cold respite of the pulse-like drum beat, and a few clipped notes from a real bass...
Those ironic words, written in 1824 at a time of fierce economic nationalism, are still true today. The system of free trade that blossomed after World War II and helped propel a quarter-century of unmatched world prosperity is now under attack. In the wake of a recession that has left 24 million people out of work in the U.S. and Western Europe alone, more and more businessmen, labor leaders and politicians are demanding protectionist barriers against foreign competition...
...years the Maidenform model said, "I dreamed I went shopping [or fought a bull, or barged down the Nile] in my Maidenform bra." The ads, featuring a winsome lady wearing nothing above the waist but a bra, appeared in more than 70 countries, starting in 1949, and helped propel the privately held company to the No. 2 spot in the intimate-apparel industry (1982 sales: $125 million...
Like a bunch of lemmings, we propel each other forward, masochistically trying to be more reckless than the next. Vanity is hopeless and we resign ourselves to looking and smelling our worst. Friends from other parties tell us that Palmer Dixon is like a sauna, the stench unbearable. As Commissioner Gordon wraps up its set, the hockey crowd has, for the most part, left to go to other post-game parties. However, we trudge onwards oblivious to the last break...