Word: propeller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anthony Wedgwood Benn stands in greatest danger of being hoist with his own petard. It was Benn who in 1972 first proposed the Common Market referendum. At the time, opinion polls were reporting a solid 2-to-1 antiMarket majority. Benn saw the referendum as an ideal vehicle to propel himself into leadership of a populist left-wing movement that would assert its supremacy over the pro-Market establishment in the Labor Party. With the help of enormous and largely hostile press publicity, he turned the referendum into a plebiscite on himself as well as the EEC. It now seems...
Steve Saxon, Joe Whatley and Mike Jemison each scored one try to propel the B team to an easy 12-0 victory over the Columbia B squad. "We simply outclassed said outgunned them," wing Kevin Ward said yesterday...
Meanwhile, the seeds of "romanticism" were being laid within the authoritarian gloire of the Empire. Where did the impulse toward exotic subjects, far travel and weird archaeologies, which would propel Delacroix to Algiers, begin? The show's thesis is that it was fixed in the French imagination by Napoleon's campaigns, especially by the invasion of Egypt. The lure of the crag and the mystery of the Pyramids were Napoleonic properties; and when Hubert Robert, in 1798, took a maypole dance in Arcady and transformed it into a ring of nymphs dancing around an eroded and indecently suggestive...
While a win tonight in Providence against this same Brown team will not propel the Crimson back into the league race, it will at least provide a measure of revenge, and seriously hinder the Bruins dreams of an Ivy championship...
...captain Nancy Sato was relegated to participation in the two diving events, because of an injury suffered last week. She finished first in the one and three meter dives, helping propel Radcliffe to its triumph...