Word: propellent
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...thing, it is difficult for history, more than once every few centuries, to invent a villain like Hitler and then propel him to such enormous power. The bad guys are rarely so horrible-although this century has been rather richly cast. Normandy in later years became an almost unconscious reply to the pacifist view of war, for Operation Overlord led to the final destruction of a tyranny that was deemed more terrible than war itself...
...women in Levinson's film either disrupt Hobbs' career or propel him towards success. But perhaps it is this enormous power they have on his life that lifts them from mere accessories to almost magical superhumans. When Hobbs and the Knights are on a sudden losing streak, Roy's hometown sweetheart (Glenn Close) comes to one of his games after not having seen him in years. Dressed in white, standing next to hundreds of almost darkened fans, she stands up in the stands as Hobbs waits for the ball after two strikes. In this make-it-or-break-it moment...
...fact, the best part-politics-was only starting. In the book's final passage, she describes the inner engine that helped propel her and her husband from a sleepy town in Georgia to the White House: "Nothing is more thrilling than the urgency of a campaign... I don't like to lose...
...Egan. Roberts. Miao. Nothing? Those three athletes helped propel the Harvard men's swimming squad to its sixth straight Eastern Seaboard championship this past weekend at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. The aquamen erased a 21-point deficit after Friday night and overtook Princeton (434 points) and Brown (387) to capture the title with 464 points...
Unlike the highly professional Mondale and Glenn organizations, McGovern is relying on a close-meshed, down-home team to propel him into his desired third or fourth place in New Hampshire. The man who runs the machine, George Cunningham, also ran McGovern's two congressional and five senatorial campaigns. A fellow South Dakotan, Cunningham first met the candidate in 1954, working side-by-side with McGovern in South Dakota's Young Democrats organization. He hasn't left the Senator's side since. "George McGovern and I go back a long way, to common roots and experience in the same state...