Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gomez feels substitution should be made according to the momentum of the play. "If a guy is playing well, he shouldn't be pulled," Gomez said. "To substitute for only five or ten minutes is not good because the player never really gets to show what...
Thus Bolivia's leftward tilt revealed to the world the accelerating momentum of a major trend in Latin America. A year ago, when he launched his government of "revolutionary nationalism," Ovando cast himself as a general of the left. He courted the same loose coalition of students, workers, and young, socially oriented military officers that Bolivia's flamboyant General René Barrientos had used as a power base during his regime. Ovando brought left-wing intellectuals into his Cabinet, expropriated the holdings of American-owned Bolivian Gulf Oil Co., and gave Communist labor leaders free reign...
...campaign, Allende vowed that he would expropriate the country's leading newspaper, the conservative El Mercurio. Now it seems that he will not even have to bother. He can achieve the same result by withholding government advertising from Mercurio and other offending publications; as the nationalization program gathers momentum, such punishment will become ever more deadly. Says a Chilean associated with the paper: "El Mercurio is like a candle in a bottle. It will give light for a while, and then will be smothered, leaving only a little black smoke. How long it lasts depends on how big a bottle...
...Cornell has a talented line-up and lots of momentum coming off a 2-2 tie with Penn last Saturday, and so the Crimson will need more than a half effort...
...Yale coach Carm Cozza lives by those words of B. J. Thomas: "When you do unto others what you wouldn't want done to you, you have to be a fool." So why should Carm go out and beat Columbia? And who says he can? The Lions have momentum, and the game...