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Word: propellant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...character," recalls Reiner, then producer of the show. "And we found that the rights belonged to another human being. The rights to the man's own personality! It was easy to get angry after that." It is to Reiner's credit that he was able to propel his anger with so much force. It is to his studio's debit that for the film's first run Reiner was not able to fling it farther than second-run movie houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Burned-Out Star | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Cornell's All-American goaltender Ken Dryden held off an inspired Harvard hockey team almost singlehandedly to propel the Big Red to a 4-2 victory over the Crimson in the ECAC finals Saturday night at the Boston Garden before 10.773 fans...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Cornell Edges Harvard For ECAC Crown | 3/10/1969 | See Source »

This month, fulfilling the yearnings and predictions of untold generations, man will attempt to propel himself across 230,000 miles of emptiness in a bold voyage toward a shining and beckoning target: the moon. Before December ends, if all goes well, he will circle the moon and look down from his spaceship at lunar craters and "seas" as little as 70 miles below. Staring up, he will see the dominant feature of the black lunar sky -the blue-green, partly illuminated globe that is his home: the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poised for the Leap | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...other hand, by completely failing to realize any of the possibilities suggested by the various scenes, Shalako does propel the mind to tangential daydreaming. I got hung up on how amazingly little screen presence Connery has. A colleague emerged from the picture meditating that someone ought to make a decent picture about mountain-climbers. Another friend who shared this minor unpleasantness with us tried to figure out which part of the USA most resembled the locations in Spain where the film was shot. Yet another surmised, correctly I think, that the reason Shalako is an "outdoor" picture is that...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Shalako | 12/5/1968 | See Source »

...governorship in 1970, but both George Murphy and Ronald Reagan seem to like their current roles, and will probably seek reelection. Finch, 43, must either return home to tend to his political power base or come to Washington and risk losing the California support that some Republicans think might propel him to the G.O.P. presidential nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President-Elect: The Quiet Time | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

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