Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists have never regained the momentum that they possessed before the U.S. arrived in force, nor is there any longer serious talk of South Viet Nam's once imminent political collapse. In the past year, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops have achieved not a single victory worth writing home to Hanoi about, while the Communist homeland absorbs an ever-increasing rain of American bombs. U.S. manpower and firepower poured into the conflict since the summer of 1965 have made the Allies largely master of the battlefield...
...Democratic machine's resistance to their demands. Hulking, white-thatched Douglas, 74, emphasizes his past contributions to such legislation as social security and federal aid to education. Says Percy, 47: "My opponent views the future through a rearview mirror." The G.O.P. challenger-whose campaign has swiftly recovered momentum lost during a three-week moratorium imposed after the murder of his daughter Valerie in September-comes down hard on the immediate, largely non-ideological issues. Percy emphasizes inflation, tight money and racial disorders, condemns Douglas' you-never-had-it-so-good refrain as "materialistic," and largely untrue; last week...
Though he is a political novice, Shapp's campaign has been adroitly planned to reach full momentum just before Nov. 8, with $1,000,000 budgeted for television in the last week alone. Day and night throughout the state, TV stations will be showing new documentary films, Shapp (30 minutes) and Man Against the Odds (15 minutes). Last week the odds were against Shapp...
...stream of campaign rhetoric emanating from Levander headquarters has been surpassingly banal and has prevented his campaign from generating any real momentum. He started by labeling the Republican ticket the "integrity team." That did not catch, but Levander went right ahead and made his main campaign slogan "Let's be proud of Minnesota again." In an attempt to humanize their candidate the Republicans borrowed a leaf from John Lindsay's book and started issuing pamphlets asking, "What kind of guy is Harold Levander...
Singleterry fell forward, the Crusader's momentum carried him and the punter's leg backward, and the bone snapped. "It seemed like he was deliberately coming after me," Singleterry said later...