Word: momentum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With less than a week remaining until the scheduled walkout, steering committee members decided to launch a momentum-building membership drive to build interest among all members of the community...
...same women who were doling out food, making music, making their own decisions, making the place their own. All this, even though at any moment, an invasion by Cambridge police could bring it all to an end. It was the collective will of the women inside that maintained the momentum...
...Clarkson given the seventh seed by the selection committee? The answer seems to be that late season momentum plays a big factor in the choices, and Clarkson has picked up three victories in its last four games. This, and the fact that the squad has been able to win some of its big ones, make it a potential threat to Harvard tonight...
...these books are nonfiction?" Novelist Joyce Carol Gates asks mildly. "They seem to me remarkable works of art on the Hesse-like theme of a young man's initiation into 'another way' of reahty. They are beautifully constructed. The character of Don Juan is unforgettable. There is a novelistic momentum, rising, suspenseful action, a gradual revelation of character...
...others. His howl for a regime of fear is again sheer raving lunacy that to his Peers makes epitomal good sense. The film ends abruptly, with Jack knifing his wife to the sound of a child calling for its father. One is left on the film's catapulted momentum: Henry the Eighth is alive and thriving, as the eternal idea of the British ruling class...