Word: propeller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have taken more than Penn State's resident football genius to propel the Nittany Lions past the Harvard men's tennis team yesterday at the Palmer Dixon Courts...
Coach Carole Kleinfelder returns all but two players from last year's squad, which posted a 9-4-1 record (5-0 Ivy). In her 10th year in charge of the program, Kleinfelder hopes to capitalize on the experience of her players to propel it to the Ivy title, and perhaps to a higher national ranking than the lofty number eight achieved by the 1987 women...
...would give the Republicans fits in the general election precisely because he can't be pigeonholed as "soft" on communism or as a big spender. While remaining loyal to the Democratic Party's liberal traditions, Gore would be able to bring moderate voters back into its fold, and thereby propel it back into the White House...
There are drawbacks. Negative ads can muddy a perpetrator's positive image. Such ads can repel as easily as they entice, driving away voters they were meant to attract. Dueling commercials between two candidates, says Mellman, can propel voters into the arms of a third. Negative ads during a primary, Squier notes, are dicier than similar ads during the general election; sniping at party comrades is never an ennobling sight...
...opening struggle for the presidency is a roving and restless assault on the sensibilities of the Iowans. The candidates and their handlers come in droves, encased in gleaming jets, dressed in dark pinstripes and tasseled shoes, determined to make the caucuses a stage that their men can exploit. Events propel them so rapidly that even if they wanted to understand Iowa, they would not have time. Hence George Bush talks about debutante parties as if Dubuque were Greenwich, and Gary Hart thinks he can somehow walk away from an indulgent weekend. Pete du Pont promotes school vouchers that just might...