Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive against the death penalty is gathering new momentum, gaining support from such religious groups as the Methodist Church, the Protestant Episcopal Church, the American Baptist Convention and the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Ardent in dividual abolitionists have ranged from the late Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter to Jack R. Johnson, tough warden of Chicago's Cook County Jail, who says, "The death penalty isn't punishment - it's revenge...
Early victories over Northeastern. Bowdoin, B.U., Exeter, and Brown, all substantial scores, gave the freshmen tremendous confidence. But the Christmas break stopped their momentum had in early January, the Crimson lost Merrimack, Boston College, and the Harvard Junior Varsity...
...Mike Nichols touch, always deft, daft and droll, flicks The Odd Couple along at a dervish's pace. But it is Neil Simon's comic freshness of vision that provides the inner momentum. Simon rarely tosses a line straight up in the air for an isolated gag; he hits it across a net of personal relationships so that a steady volley of wit builds up out of character and situation. Simon also knows how to prod a cliché off its bed of banality so that it walks toward the brink of logical absurdity. "Who'd send...
...lead in the fourth game see-sawed until Robinson pulled ahead, 10-7. But a tinned corner drop attempt allowed Poor to regain enough momentum to take the game. The fifth and final game was all Poor...
Radcliffe had the momentum, but Wheaton's sextet didn't give up. Wheaton held a slim 13-12 lead when the Cliffies finally run out of gas. Forward Barb Frehlingheusen hit a 20-foot set shot and center Martha Noyes scored a tip-in moments later which sewed it up for the Wheaties...