Word: propellent
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...Crimson shooting turned cold and UMass stormed back behind big men John Murphy and Jim Town. Each netted four points in the spree to propel UMass to a 72-67 lead...
...racket man in the world. Today, at 44, he can be beaten only by players using trick spins off the modern soft-sponge paddle. As the champ says, his kind of Ping Pong is entirely unlike the metronomic rec-room game familiar to most Americans. World-class players can propel the ball at speeds exceeding 100 m.p.h.; facing them across a table is like batting against Nolan Ryan from a distance...
...bribed Chilean unions to oppose Allende. Buu's group in turn controls the "Peasant-Labor Party," which ironically lacks either peasants or laborers in the party hierarchy. Buu knows George Meany personally and after an expose this summer in the German weekly Der Spiegel, may be too vulnerable to propel himself into power...
Maloney, a former city editor of the Providence Journal and media coordinator for Kevin White's 1970 gubernatorial bid here, said Sullivan may be relying too heavily on his Cambridge base to propel him to higher office...
...mechanism that continues to propel these great land masses away from the rift valley remains one of geology's great mysteries. According to Geologist Wilfred Bryan of the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution, the submarine explorers found indications that contrary to some theories, the continents are not forced apart by powerful lava flows at the site of the rift valley. If massive eruptions of lava were forcing the continents apart, Bryan says, the crews of the subs would have seen giant volcanoes like those in Hawaii. But they spotted only small mountains-a sign of minor uplifting by forces...