Word: propellent
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...years the Maidenform model said, "I dreamed I went shopping [or fought a bull, or barged down the Nile] in my Maidenform bra." The ads, featuring a winsome lady wearing nothing above the waist but a bra, appeared in more than 70 countries, starting in 1949, and helped propel the privately held company to the No. 2 spot in the intimate-apparel industry (1982 sales: $125 million...
Like a bunch of lemmings, we propel each other forward, masochistically trying to be more reckless than the next. Vanity is hopeless and we resign ourselves to looking and smelling our worst. Friends from other parties tell us that Palmer Dixon is like a sauna, the stench unbearable. As Commissioner Gordon wraps up its set, the hockey crowd has, for the most part, left to go to other post-game parties. However, we trudge onwards oblivious to the last break...
...neglects the weight good Sino-American relations have already had in world affairs--such as the force China lent to world outcry against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In addition, denigrating the importance of mainland China ignored the possibility that its natural resources and fairly well-controlled masses could propel it to a position of world power...
...network people read these tea leaves; they were too busy sipping champagne. This was, after all, the year of Roots, the twelve-hour mini-series that earned the highest ratings in TV history and helped propel ABC to No. 1 status for the first time ever. It was quite a coup for Fred Silverman, ABC'S programming chief, and in 1978 NBC, which had slipped to a gentleman's third place in the ratings, hired him as network president. By 1981 Silverman had pulled off an even more spectacular feat. He had demonstrated that with enough hard work...
...obscure color of dreams, and in fact the murdered man's dream becomes the key to solving the crime; the psychiatrist succeeds where the police have failed. The discovery parallels the structure of the film, since character exploration, not a succession of shoot-outs or chase scenes, propel plot...