Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Starting slowly, the Yardlings gained momentum in the second period when they assumed a 6-2 lead. Melrose rallied for two goals in the third canto while holding the winners...
Berlin was not intimidated. As if carried forward by the momentum of resistance, power plant workers staged the first labor revolt against the Russians in Berlin since the occupation began. Trouble had started, before the elections, in the main administration offices of huge Bewag (Berliner Elektrizitätswerke A.G.). The Russians and their stooges, trying to destroy Bewag's predominantly non-Communist works council, had arrested six men and stationed police and plainclothesmen in the building. At a noisy, protest meeting, 3,000 Germans decided on a walkout unless their men were freed and the cops removed. Jumping...
...file grew in length and picked up momentum as it crossed Massachusetts ave., headed down Holyoke st., and snaked over the usual rally route past the Houses, leaving a sparkling litter of empty beer bottles in its wake...
...been turning slowly ,so far this season. It had a new coach, old Michigan Immortal Bennie Oosterbaan, as well as a few players left over from last year's Rose Bowl champions. Michigan barely got past Michigan State (13-7) in its first game, but picked up some momentum against Oregon (14-0), and last week crushed Purdue...
Secret Weapon. At the last minute, Bernadotte and the Security Council tried to extend the truce before the still rickety war machines of Jews and Arabs could pick up momentum. Israel said it was willing to accept the extension. But the Arab League refused, claiming that the truce was "unworkable and one-sided." In Rhodes, where hard-working Bernadotte had found a little time for play (see cut), he warned both sides. After they had rejected his suggestions for a settlement, he said, "the losing party . . . can no longer hope to get so much . . . They take terrible risks in starting...