Word: propeller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that had triggered it?changed the diplomatic outlook for the Middle East. Ever since Anwar Sadat undertook his "sacred mission" to Jerusalem last November, the focus had been on the pursuit of peace and the chance that, despite all the subsequent setbacks, the Egyptian President's initiative could somehow propel the protagonists toward an unraveling of their ancient grievances. Now, suddenly, the talk of peace was replaced by grave concern about a renewal of the old Middle East "cycle of violence," as U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance called...
...plan must be approved by the Japanese Diet, Hirokichi Yoshiyama, president of Hitachi Ltd., said, "Its effect will not be visible" until the end of the fiscal year next March. Washington policymakers were more generous. One Treasury official described the plan as a "kick in the back" that will propel the non-Communist world's second largest economy forward. Said he with a sigh: "Now if we could only get the Germans to reflate as well...
...lameduck state judge he made a public show of defying a Johnson order to turn over voting lists to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Johnson later found that Wallace had cooperated with the authorities, and dropped contempt charges against him. But the false show of bravado helped propel Wallace into the governorship in 1962. As the years passed, Johnson's intervention in .he workings of state government so emasculated Wallace's authority that some observers began calling Johnson "the real Governor of Alabama...
...Crimson moved in front in the bottom of the third. Rich Pearce reached first and a force at second replaced him with catcher Steve Joyce. Centerfielder Dave Singleton knocked a solid triple into left, scoring Joyce to propel the Crimson ahead...
...could prove to be] a worthy successor to Roosevelt, Truman and [George] Marshall." Of course anyone embodying the power of the U.S. is going to be treated with respect abroad. But Carter, deploying the same combination of disarming charm and unexpected intelligence that he used so skillfully to propel himself into the Oval Office, earned much of this deference...