Word: puissante
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...comebacks, a couple of semi-Cinderella teams stumbled into the 1971 Super Bowl. Both the Baltimore Colts and the Dallas Cowboys have been prime contenders for the championship game since it began in 1967. The Colts reached it once-only to lose; Dallas, despite innumerable preseason predictions that the puissant Cowboys were certain winners, never made it at all. In this Sunday's encounter in Miami, both teams will be less concerned with replenishing their bank accounts (each player on the winning team will receive $15,000) than with banishing their reputations as losers...
That Martha Elizabeth Beall Jennings Mitchell should find herself, at the age of 52. one of the most noticed women in such puissant company has been a surprise to herself and just about everyone who knew her?certainly in Pine Bluff...
...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...