Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest stress of the system is on the inside halfbacks. These two men must check the momentum of the opposition at midfield, and then key the outside halfs to begin a forward attack...
...slot. Varney, who was on the verge of becoming Harvard's all-time receiving leader before the switch, played there as a freshman, and gained almost 800 yards. At 6' 2", 235, he is probably the most mammoth athlete to play the position in Harvard history. Once he achieves momentum, he is not easily brought down. But given the inexperience of the offensive line this Fall, his teammates may not be able to give him the time he needs to pick up steam. Varney is, however, nearly unstoppable on a swing pass, and combined with Miller, can provide excellent protection...
What concerns me then, as I told you and your colleagues, is not the relatively equitable situation in 1970, but both the Soviets' massive strategic arms momentum and research and development momentum that threatened to make them nine or ten feet tall in the mid-1970s and afterward. We in the Department of Defense, as all Americans, hope that as a result of negotiations in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks an equitable agreement can be reached to limit strategic arms. We, as well as our negotiating team, regard orderly progress on the Safeguard ABM program...
...Brussels. At the very least, the inclusion of Britain and its three fellow applicants in the Market would make it a more formidable rival of the superpowers in terms of population (more than 250 million) and gross national product (see map opposite). At best, their admission could impart fresh momentum to the old dream of Monnet, who was sure that "once a common market interest has been created, then political union will come naturally...
...Brother Pig, a novella, hints ever so slightly of Mailer's stylishly oblique and politically muddled Barbary Shore ("Puzzling Porky" is Updike's title for the TIME review). When the Saints, a collection of essays and sketches of the kind that often get published from the sheer momentum of a downsliding career, contains such elegies of West Side New York as "Sunsets over New Jersey" and such Commen-tariana as "Orthodoxy and Orthodontics." Bech has also succumbed to the siren song of journalism with such artides as "The Landscape of Orgasm" (House and Garden) and "My Favorite Christmas...