Word: propell
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...visionary who, along with his administration, saw an opportunity to defeat the USSR without going to war and acted upon it. The irony is the fallout of his actions helped to propel the United States into a growth spurt in the 1990's which many people dont realize he is responsible for. R. Morris Melville...
With the heightened competition amongst the players battling to be selected as the starting five at the season’s start in eight days, a unity and camaraderie have emerged that should propel whichever players ultimately emerge at the top of the heap as the year unfolds...
...floss, Bloom pauses, cocks his head, smiles and says: "But I'm 26. I'm in the prime of my life. What do I have to complain about?" Not much. No star is rising faster than his. Of course the boy from Canterbury, England, has worked hard to propel it. He's had a packed shooting schedule during the past two years, as his role as the elf Legolas in The Lord of the Rings has turned him into a teen heartthrob and a sure-fire box-office draw. And in the next nine months, audiences will...
...international investigation. Terror attacks against Russian civilians could hurt Putin in the run-up to parliamentary elections in December and the presidential elections next year. But he could also use the crisis to cement his hold on power; it was the 1999 wave of apartment bombings that helped propel him into office in the first place. "Bombings and elections go together in Moscow," noted an editorial in the English-language Moscow Times. "At the Kremlin they believe that Russians will learn to live with these bombings, like the Soviets once learned to live with chronic food shortages," says the senior...
DIED. FREDDIE BLASSIE, 85, early villainous hero of professional wrestling during the 1950s and '60s; in Hartsdale, N.Y. He helped propel his TV celebrity by jeering the crowds, biting opponents in the ring and calling foes "pencil-neck geeks." In 1983 he appeared with the late comic Andy Kaufman in My Breakfast with Blassie, a film parody of My Dinner with Andre...