Word: propelled
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DIED. WALT ROSTOW, 86, easygoing yet hawkish adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson whose unfailing optimism about U.S. involvement in Vietnam helped propel the war; in Austin, Texas. The son of a Socialist, he coined Kennedy's campaign slogan, Let's Get This Country Moving Again. The onetime M.I.T. economics professor saw the war primarily as a means of ensuring modernization and development in Southeast Asia. He never publicly regretted his position, saying in 1986, "I'm not obsessed with Vietnam, and I never was. I don't spend much time worrying about that period...
Ingram’s decision-making abilities and puck-control skills helped propel her to the national lead in assists per game at the end of last season. She has yet to tally an assist in her three games this year, but Stone is confident there will be plenty of scoring to come, given the way her line dominated possession of the puck against Wayne State...
...Carmichael wrote in the original proposal for the production: “Specifically, that humans are toys, that humans are made from stuff no fancier than clay or papier-mache, but because they are animate, because they are imbued with a life force, they therefore wield agency, they therefore propel themselves, they therefore are capable of great acts of cruelty and ambition as well as great acts of bravery and love...
...over No. 7 Brown (4-4-2, 3-2 ECAC) could be enough to propel the No. 2 Crimson (7-1, 5-0) to the top of the national rankings since No. 1 Minnesota lost twice to No. 3 Minnesota-Duluth this weekend...
Throw out the free-body diagram—this sort of drive may not be measurable. Maybe the same will that sustains the fellow students who debate athletic recruiting at Harvard is the very same force that will ultimately propel Carl Morris to a long NFL career. Maybe Casey Kramer was more right than he knew when he whined that Morris was “just a guy.” And maybe that is the biggest reason to think Morris just might pull this NFL thing off after...