Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lobbying action, considered one of the most important activities of the vets, gained some momentum today although results were mixed. They were generally well-received by liberal Congressmen, but hawkish Congressmen were reportedly more often than...
Taking It Apart. Operation Lam Son 719 was suddenly over, 45 days after it had begun. But the withdrawal-and the Communist pursuit-had a momentum of its own. North Vietnamese tankers drove to within half a mile of the border, not only in their own Sovietbuilt machines but in some of the 30 or more American-made M41 tanks abandoned by ARVN in Laos. East of the border at Khe Sanh, the former U.S. Marine outpost from which most of Lam Son's 600 helicopters operated, enemy rocket and artillery fire thudded in round the clock; one night...
...been exhausted. As the fires go out, the gases-which have been supported in the shape of a huge, distended globe by heat and radiation -suddenly begin to fall inward toward the star's center of gravity. If the star is massive enough, the imploding gases gather such momentum as they fall that they virtually crush themselves out of existence at the stellar center. Using the formulas of Einstein's general theory of relativity, more recent theorists predict that as the star shrinks toward oblivion, the familiar rules of physics may be violated. Its mass becomes infinitely dense...
...meeting Monday night, SDS members were unanimous in calling the disruption a complete success. "This was the largest mass action I've seen on this campus in my four years here," reminisced Ira D. Helfand '71. "We should use this to build up a tremendous momentum to fight...
...been an inchoate campaign, waged mainly by local ad hoc committees thrown together 1) to resist proposed state legislation liberalizing abortion laws, or 2) to fight back when a state court strikes down existing anti-abortion statutes. But there are signs that the campaign is gaining momentum, direction and some critical successes. Easily the most impressive victory to date has been won, at least for the moment, by the Illinois Right-to-Life Committee in a clash with the American Civil Liberties Union over the constitutionality of the Illinois abortion...