Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists were trying to get the jump on the country's new military leader, Lieut. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, before he could get his own campaign organized. Minh and his fellow generals have assigned aggressive new officers to combat commands, but their forces have not regained the momentum against the Viet Cong...
...team. While they had all raced before, none of the freshman runners had had any substantial cross-country experience. By mid-season, however, they had enough experience to trounce Columbia, 20-41, and to push a strong Penn team before losing, 29-27. From then on, the Crimson gathered momentum. They faltered before Princeton, but ran up victories over Dartmouth, Yale, and the G.B.L. contenders...
...when the children of these people want to run the country?" Were Roca alive today, his tone might soften appreciably. "These people's" children are indeed running Argentina, and the Italian imprint is everywhere-shaping Argentine culture and character and giving Argentina's industry much of its momentum...
...Tigers quickly showed some of the offensive power that has brought them six straight victories, with tailback Hugh MacMillan runing for gains of 9, 12, and 7 yards. Then the luck turned against Nassau, with an off-side penalty and a fumble destroying the momentum of the nascent drive...
...should never be able to improve our chances of living together with Russia or engineering better relations? I could not accept that pessimistic conclusion. The impact of education and science is inevitably working a social change in the Soviet Union. A revolution started 40 years ago cannot maintain its momentum for ever. In spite of all setbacks, we must persevere. Today we keep the peace by the balance of terror-because that is what life is. But we must work to wards keeping the peace by reason-because that is what life ought...