Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marshall Plan? Hardly, since the economies of all Western European nations are intertwined with France's. The urgent French need to export food surpluses, and its booming market for other nations' industrial goods, are the stick and the carrot that have given the community much of its momentum...
...Spring nearly all Harvard teams made impressive opening sprints, but only the track team, with its upset triumph over the Bulldogs, maintained its momentum. A disastrous weekend with Princeton ended the title quests of the lacrosse and tennis teams, and the baseball squad, despite the efforts of league batting champion Mike Drummey and some outstanding hurling by Paul Del Rossi, just missed the Eastern crown. The 18-4 record was the best in some time for the diamond team, however, and it included memorable victories over Army and Navy...
...default of dramatic momentum, Director Joshua Logan soups up the melodramatic attitudinizing-soulful head clutchings, venomous spittings-in-the-face, and caged-animal stage stalking. Only in the last act does one scene come alive with fury and clarity. Diana Sands, a cool, sexy hustler who has worn the body-and-soul-for-sale sign longer than the tiger, proposes marriage to him. Too sterile for love, too cynical for hope, she suggests only that they huddle together for animal warmth in their loneliness. In the psychic fatigue of her voice, there is a fox at bay, and one hears...
...Harvard eleven has played its best football in its last two outings and has shown no sign of losing momentum in practice this week. With a total of 157 points in seven games, the varsity offense is what Yovicsin terms "one of the very best...
From that moment on, some of the momentum seemed to go out of the U.S.'s new drive against Soviet Communism and Castro's Cuba...