Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evan Davis, the subcommittee has already enlisted the services of a number of capable students and the cooperation of many of the department chairman and senior tutors. With this proposal, the HPC has found an excellent way of reaching to the heart of Harvard's educational system. If the momentum already built up continues, this subcommittee could have a lasting effect on course offerings and tutorial regulations...
More than most papers, the Reporter is frequently carried along by the momentum of its readers, and the correspondence columns customarily fill at least one of its ten or more pages. The letters to the editor sometimes make the best reading in the Reporter: a lively, lengthy debate on clerical celibacy was sparked by an article, written by a priest, advocating modification of the church's rule against married clergy. Readers also provide most of the items for "Cry Pax!", a weekly column noting with deadpan wit the latest in churchly foibles-such as that the movie Rotten...
...night, and few by day; the trains had long since stopped running. From their tunneled redoubts, the Communist Viet Cong held 65% of South Viet Nam's land and 55% of its people in thrall. Saigon's armies were bone weary and bleeding from defections. As the momentum of their monsoon offensive gathered, the Communists seemed about to cut the nation in half with a vicious chop across the Central Highlands. The enemy was ready to move in for the kill, and South Viet Nam was near collapse...
Though harassed, the Viet Cong are far from beaten. Despite their heavy losses and their loss of tactical momentum, they still hold vast chunks of South Vietnamese real estate. Thanks to an infiltration rate still running at an all-time high of 1,000 men a month from the north, the Communists have actually managed to increase their strength, now have in South Viet Nam an estimated 65,000 main-force and regional troops, 80,000 to 100,000 guerrillas, and perhaps 40,000 fellow travelers in logistical and political cadres...
...that began during the trouble on India's Himalayan border. When U.S. diplomats protested, Ayub always maintained that his chaps were taking things a bit far and he did not really approve of their extreme policies. Since then, the chaps seem to have been able to develop a momentum for their policies -backed by an upsurge of national pride and jingoism as a result of the Kashmir struggle-that leads many foreign experts to wonder just how much freedom of action Ayub has left...