Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Shared Power. Once India was free and Gandhi dead, Patel and Nehru shared supreme power. While Nehru made speeches and handled India's foreign relations, Patel shaped much of the nation's domestic policy. As Home Minister, he used his police to suppress Communist terrorism and to "discipline" troublesome labor unions. As States Minister, he brought India's 550-odd feudal princelings to heel. (In one whirlwind 96-hour tour he pressured two dozen princes into surrendering their political powers, thus added 8,000,000 people and 56,000 square miles to the Dominion of India.) Together...
Caddigan solemnly avers that Captain Video, sponsored by Power House Candy Bar and Skippy Peanut Butter, has an educational bent: "It sets up in a child's mind the idea of what electronics...
...Parity is a formula for adjusting farm support prices according to the prices farmers have to pay for the things they buy (fertilizer, tractors, etc.). The aim is to give the farmers' dollar the same purchasing power it had in 1910-14. No other segment of the U.S. economy has the same government guarantee. Parity prices are revised monthly by the Department of Agriculture...
...manages to hush a scandal that might have brought the cabinet down. Soon after, he is in the thick of a provincial election, passing out bribes as easily as breathing. In all this stock jobbery, the newly invented telegraph serves the political and financial turn of the men in power so often that Stendhal sees the instrument as a symbol of corruption...
Like his friend and fellow fake-hunter, Magician Harry Houdini, Rinn spent a long time looking for evidence of psychic power he could believe in. As a youngster, he was bowled over when a medium ordered him to place the spout of a kettle to his ear and thus receive the words of a "spirit voice." Only after he himself became a magician did Rinn realize that he had been duped (out of $5) by a double-bottomed kettle equipped like a telephone receiver and in contact with a "spirit" hidden behind a panel...