Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's varsity baseball team, riding on the momentum of its important Greater Boston League victory over Boston College, faces its toughest challenge of the season today when it meets Springfield College on the Indians' campus...
Harvard's tennis team, gaining momentum and confidence for next week's showdown with Pennsylvania, eased to an impressive 8-1 victory at Amherst yesterday afternoon to increase its Northern match winning streak to three...
Most of the momentum came from Carswell's supporters, however. Besides Nixon's statement, the White House released endorsements of the nominee by eleven of his fellow judges-a measure of questionable value, considering that another seven of Carswell's colleagues refused to back him. In an attempt to head off the vote to recommit the nomination to the Judiciary Committee, an action that would ordinarily mean the death of the Carswell nomination, a majority of the committee signed a letter saying that "no useful purpose" would be served by recommittal-and implying that they would simply...
...even after Crimson coach Jack Barnaby rested his first doubles unit. of Washauer and Nielsen, and pitted the other tandems against higher-ranking Navy entries, the Midshipmen were unable to halt Harvard's momentum...
...Nixon's "appeal to black separatists' feelings" clever but irrelevant. "In effect," she said, "this is a separate but equal policy, nothing more than an endorsement of continued segregation." As New York Psychologist Kenneth Clark saw it, "This is a denuding, a significant slowing down of the momentum that has been building all too slowly since...