Word: propeller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...fresh blood, pulling in young people with high energy but little campaign background. Former Sen. George S. McGovern and former Florida Gov. Reubin D. Askey are relying on home-state buddies and old supporters; the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson is building a team of minority leaders who recently helped propel several Blacks to mayoral posts around the country...
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...
...million device resembles nothing so much as a clumsy overstuffed armchair without a seat. On earth it weighs 340 lbs., but in zero-g an MMU can fly like a bird. A squirt or two of nitrogen gas from any of its 24 small jet thrusters can propel it in any direction. Strapped into this flying chair, an astronaut need only work the handle-like controls built into the armrests...