Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banys scored fourteen points, but with five minutes remaining Kirkland was down five and Yale had all the momentum to win. Strong rebound work by sophomore William Timpson and center John Leshy, a senior, combined with Taft's flashing performance...
Unmentionable Word. His gamble paid off. In the resulting battle, the enemy lost four irreplaceable carriers and the momentum that had propelled him from victory to victory. For the Japanese, Midway became an unmentionable word. Nimitz indulged himself in a rare pun: "Perhaps we will be forgiven if we claim that we are about midway to our objective." Though more than three years of hard, bitter fighting remained, that single, three-day battle marked the turning point of the Pacific war, the beginning of the end of Japanese ambitions...
Overshadowing everything for Coach Cooney Weiland and his players is the upcoming Beanpot final against Boston University Monday night. To have a chance against the Terriers, the Crimson will need everything it can get, including the confidence and momentum a resounding win over Dartmouth might provide...
Perhaps the only sure way for a metropolitan paper to compete with the suburban press is to start a suburban paper of its own, as Field Enterprises has done. "The growth of the suburban dailies is getting into full swing," says Professor Byerly. "Their momentum is not going to be slowed down...
...lightning tragedy of the Clutter murder are the tremors of a nation. Smith and Hickock are neither judged for what they did, nor vulgarly presented as anti-heroes. With courageous and incisive honesty Capote focuses on the dynamics of the two personalities, but never lets the tensions and momentum of the killers' relationship obscure the outward drama their characters trigger...