Word: amplifyer
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Rhodes also charged that Nixon's conduct in the 1970 elections was "diametrically the opposite of what we recommended in the report. The President had concluded that the campaign would build on the divisions in America and amplify them."
TIME'S Behavior section this week turns its attention to a vast and fascinating phenomenon that is coming to be known as "the human-potentials movement"-"a dedicated quest," as the story explains, "conducted in hundreds of ways and places, to redefine, amplify and enrich the spirit of social...
The litany of irony and error is unending. Emperor Hirohito is outmaneuvered by his military cadre; President Roosevelt is crossed off the confidential list because the generals distrust his advisers. Bureaucracy and blind tradition amplify each error beyond calculation. No single man can be blamed, and no villains or heroes...
Though Colonsay boasts only one store and a pub, McPhee writes, "things amplify. It may be the light." The mountains seem bigger than they are, the cairns like fortresses, the people like characters out of sagas, even though they are cattle farmers, shepherds, dock keepers, postmen, laborers-sometimes a little...
Character, of course, is an integral part of the love novel. Plot and character must work together. It is advisable to add several secondary characters to amplify the basic falling-in-love sequence.