Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...busy street vendors, Buddhist priests and swarms of bicycles. But the scars, both physical and psychological, are still there. Reconstruction has been slow-despite more than $2,000,000 and the efforts of thousands of Vietnamese and Americans. It was not until last August that the effort picked up momentum...
...Crimson, however, could not keep the momentum, and Yale recovered a narrow lead, and held it, on the sharp outside shooting of Morgan and Dan Peters. The two teams traded baskets for several minutes with Eric Gustavson, Hardy, and Janczewski pumping in long jumpers...
This year, however, the Crimson has a favorable draw and momentum in its favor. B.C. and B.U. pair off in the other half of the draw tonight at 9 p.m. which means that Harvard will not face both powerhouses for the third consecutive year...
...theory of presidential strategy has it that any new White House resident must stamp his signature on the times immediately or risk losing forever the chance to do so. Nixon construes his circumstances and opportunities differently?and with cause. He wants what one adviser calls "studious momentum." He is a minority President who faces an opposition majority on Capitol Hill, a centrist Republican who confronts a political left and right, both flaming with angry frustration...
...Crimson's cluster of goals in the last period followed the pattern it has set all season, gaining momentum as the game progresses and out-scoring its opponents by better than a two-to-one margin...