Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What about the mystery weapons? Speculation zipped through nerve gases, atomic dust, disintegrator rays and harnessed sunbeams, but seemed to settle somewhere near guided missiles (see Armed Forces). Meanwhile the $61 billion bill spun toward final action on the Senate floor this week with new momentum...
...meetings, Savitt had never beaten Flam. When Flam won the first set, 6-1, it looked like the same old story. The second set was a backbreaker, 15-13, and Savitt won it after trailing 1-5. After that it was easy (6-3, 6-2). With the added momentum that victory gave to his confidence, and showing never a jot of the center-court jitters that have wrecked many another player at Wimbledon, he breezed past McGregor again in the final...
...junior Republican Senator from Massachusetts criticized the Administration for failing to act quickly enough in its mobilization program, which, he said, should have gathered full momentum upon the outbreak of hostilities in Korea...
...mothballed. Then, right after the war, the other Ivy colleges greatly intensified their efforts over anything they had ever done, but Harvard, meanwhile, seemed still to be suffering from its war-time stagnation. Conant himself believes that the movement for "Balance in the College," nationally and otherwise, lost some momentum right about that time...
...mothballed. Then, right after the war, the other Ivy colleges greatly intensified their efforts over anything they had ever done, but Harvard, meanwhile, seemed still to be suffering from its war-time stagnation. Conant himself believes that the movement for "Balance in the College," nationally and otherwise, lost some momentum right about that time...