Word: propeller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea of starting an unprovoked nuclear war themselves. As Sovietologist Raymond L. Garthoff, now an adviser to the U.S. delegation at SALT, pointed out in his 1966 book, Soviet Military Policy: "Communist doctrine does inject unusually strong hostility and suspicion into Soviet policymaking, but Marxism-Leninism does not propel the Soviet Union blindly toward war or the witting assumption of great risks." Communist doctrine does, however, impel them toward a global competition short of direct U.S.-Soviet warfare...
...lucky shots, but none was so amazing as a three-iron that he hit on the tenth hole. After hooking his drive on the 390-yard dogleg to the left. Smallnick could not even see the green for the trees. The smart Engineer then devised a plan which would propel his ball on a flight pattern like that of a boomerang. He would hook the ball around the trees...
George Sprou won the foil to propel Adams House to its third-place finish...
...probation for his part in the takeover) had no desire to be drawn into what they viewed as a procedural quagmire, reasoning that their demands for more construction workers would be lost in involved disputes over governance. And the Ad Board's punishments were not so severe as to propel them into action. It placed two students on probation and two on warning status, which meant that those four students would risk suspension or dismissal if they participated in more protests...
...imagined himself a Carthaginian commander. And that is precisely what the real Patton thought he was. A mirror-gazing mystic, Patton believed in reincarnation and wrote odes to himself in his other lives. Today such attitudes in a draftee might bar him from service; yesterday they served to propel a general to victories...