Word: impetuses
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...sides realize that both nations are there to stay (backed by the U.N. and U.S. against anybody's aggression), negotiation of a settlement on borders and main issues should be mandatory. The new situation in the Middle East, mixed up as it is, offers new opportunity and new impetus for another try at U.S.-sponsored negotiation...
...known that impetus for forming the group came from a resolution which William C. Brady '57, another member of the provisional group, presented at Mechanics Hall rally Sunday night. He was cheered there by the audience when he said that the U.S. should be prepared to send troops to Hungary if Russia fails to comply with the U.N. request for Soviet non-interference...
Taylor got his first impetus toward history from eight great-aunts. Born in Bedford, Virginia, in 1899 to a northern father and a southern mother, he moved to Maplewood, N.J., at the age of one, but frequent visits back to Virginia enabled his aunts to bring him up in a fervor of Confederate sentiment. Strongly southern in feelings (his earliest published work, which appeared in a local paper when he was ten years old, was a pathetic poem on Lee's army), he become ambitious to rewrite the history of the Civil War "in a proper...
...just scored after a 15-play march, but Penn, sparked by Frank Riepl's 40-yard run, had a first down on the Crimson four-yard line. Everyone in the Stadium knew another touchdown would clinch the game, while a successful goal line stand could give the Crimson impetus for the tying touchdown...
...impetus for this offensive upsurge must go first to Jordan, who had the courage to junk his conservative single-wing in favor of the more deceptive T-formation--thus allowing him to utilize his experienced backs more profitably...