Word: puissant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such blues wellsprings as Robert Johnson and Willie Dixon. it does not make its debts its originality. While Led Zeppelin is not so resonantly lyrical as the Beatles. or self-consciously evangelical as Jefferson Airplane. or menacing and cleverly crude as the Rolling Stones. it nevertheless produces a more puissant and unmannered sound than any of these more famous groups. Led Zeppelin like the very few excellent groups. plays with neither tediousness nor superfluity. The essence of the group is superior playing of a propulsive character controlled- by imagination and a firm sense of structure- from degenerating into an assault...
...some reason. The Mendelian domain, nine counties clustered around the port of Charleston, is abristle with 17 Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force installations that provide 55% of Greater Charleston's economy-and testify to Rivers' nonpartisan efficiency in looking after his constituents as chairman of the puissant House Armed Services Committee. Though Rivers, 62, has by no means been responsible for all of the military largesse that the U.S. has bestowed upon the Charleston area, his constituents generally believe that he has, and return him to Washington with metronomic regularity. Route 52 through Charleston is called Rivers...
...nation's front-line strategists in the gold war. In one hectic day, Wilson managed to share Scotch and headaches with the Secretaries of Treasury and Commerce, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, the chief presidential economist and a score of their erudite underlings. These puissant men, almost all of them newcomers to the first team, are increasingly called upon by the rising pressures of international finance to negotiate with foreign dignitaries, to defend the dollar and preserve gold, while simultaneously helping to lighten the U.S. taxpayer's burden and spur the nation's economic growth...
...districts, including the entire borough of Richmond (Staten Island), which Wagner won by 18,600 votes in 1957. In The Bronx, running with the support of the labor-backed Liberal Party, Republican Joseph F. Periconi won the borough presidency from a hand-picked candidate of Congressman Charles Buckley, most puissant of the Democratic bosses. In the 25-man city council, the G.O.P. doubled its strength-jumping, that is, from one seat...
Singing & Dancing. The term Shakers -like Quakers-was originally a derisive taunt by "the world's people"; their official name is the United Society of Believers. The society was founded by a puissant prophetess named Mother Ann Lee, the daughter of a British blacksmith, who brought her eight original disciples to America in 1774. They settled in Watervliet, N.Y. to live, in the words of Mother Ann, "as though you had 1,000 years to live and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow...