Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vietnamese Communism from its inception has been a native movement. It gathered its initial momentum during the World War II resistance, years before the triumph of the Chinese Communists provided a friendly power on Vietnam's northern border. And although the popularity of the Communist regime has been losing support due to its economic austerity measures and suppression of political freedoms, it still offers to an indefinite majority in North Vietnam and many in the South a preferable alternative to its Southern rival...
...Waste Land that established him overnight as "the Abominable Snowman of modern poetry." (Like that's the most, man.) Howl is an astounding screed, an interminable sewer of a poem that sucks in all the feculence, malignity and unmeaning slime of modern life and spews them with tremendous momentum into the reader's mind. Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks...
...unimportant question. for the University's internal past Deans of the Faculty of Sciences have exerted fully as power as the president; since resigned, internal affairs have on momentum he supplied. President Pusey and Edward S. Mason have at different times served as acting dean neither in any real sense "replaced" Bundy. In this "acting-only" capacity, for example, Meson was understandably hesitant about broad planning in educational policy--a field of obvious importance and a primary responsibility of the Dean of the Faculty...
Using the conservation laws of elementary physics (conservation of energy and momentum) and Einstein's famous mass-energy relationship, the physicist calculated the fuel requirements for a hypothetical round trip to a planet 12 light years distant. He assumed the rocket would accelerate to 99 per cent the speed of light and return to the earth 22 years after leaving...
Sheer respect for Henrik Ibsen (even Ibsen at his worst), provided the momentum for last night's production at the Loeb. Director Caroline Cross persistently believed in the applicability of the play, and a good cast went far toward transforming grandiose chit-chat into drama...