Word: impetuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ecstatic has been rendered sterile. Exploration in reforms of the teaching process had had tentative beginnings in February and March, in the form of the Free University of Cambridge, the Conspiracy Against Harvard Education, and any number of other informal groups. The Strike gave these explorations a powerful added impetus...
China's efforts in Eastern Europe and those of Russia in Asia are part of a global Sino-Soviet competition that has gained new impetus and urgency because of the firefights on the Ussuri River border. Though the Soviets claim they have evacuated the disputed island in the Ussuri and have called for a negotiated settlement of the issue, the competition continues. The immediate aim of both sides is to recruit supporters for the world meeting of Communist parties, now scheduled for June 5 in Moscow. The long-range objective is to gain a strong foothold in the adversary...
...left in total ignorance, however. There has appeared a effort to characterize the homeland in which democracy developed, and thus identify the impetus behind...
Overall, the answer must be that our political parties, operating, in an environment that undermines the sociological impetus toward democracy, provide additional obstructions to the operation of political democracy. Instead of aiding the political democracy of this nation as they once did, political parties now discourage that course...
...putting their trust in Liberty Bank, which opened last May. Within the first 70 days, deposits reached $1,000,000; they had more than doubled by Dec. 31. Liberty's vice president, James I. Burton, 46, an engineer by training, says: "The bank has given pride and impetus to the black community. I think it demonstrates that the Negro doesn't want everything handed...