Word: propelled
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...pregnant and then, 44 minutes and dozens of penis jokes later, actually have something that resembles a tender scene. Not exactly a femme fantasy, but more than half the people who went to see the film on opening weekend were women, and two-thirds were couples, who helped propel it to $145 million and counting. Aug. 17 brings us Superbad, concocted by Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen, who, respectively, directed and starred in Knocked Up. It too has the trappings of a love story--boys have comic misadventures as they try to get the girls of their dreams...
...with another Scandinavian prize giver. Kavli even worked briefly as an explosives engineer, Alfred Nobel's area of tycoonery. But Kavli insists his prizes are different. For one thing, he doesn't want them to be end-of-career accolades, as Nobels often are. Kavli wants his awards to propel less well-known scientists, and Nobel winners will be explicitly excluded from consideration...
Though Perlstein’s piece points to the college experience’s slide toward the vocational as a primary agent in its downfall, both the Times and mtvU acknowledged—perhaps ironically—that entrants may rightfully view the contest as a chance to propel their post-graduate aspirations...
Like any other spacecraft, Dawn will have to be muscled off its launchpad by a conventional rocket burning conventional propellant. Once it climbs to near Earth space, however, everything will change. Of all the things that add weight to a spacecraft, fuel presents the most problems. The farther you're going, the more propellant you need, but every pound of it you add means more mass the engine must propel, which requires more fuel still, and on and on. A spacecraft like Dawn, which is designed not just to fly by its two targets but also to settle into orbit...
Although Yale struck first and held two leads in the game, freshman Andre’ Akpan tallied two goals and an assist to propel Harvard to victory...