Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the war's early stages, his battles with the censors were tolerable wrangles. As the momentum of Hitler's first successes slackened, censorship tightened and Shirer's struggles to tell something of the truth in his broadcasts became more and more acrimonious and futile ("You can't call Germany aggressive and militaristic," he was told; "please remember that it was Poland which attacked us first"). By autumn of 1940, he was giving his best material to his diary-his sighting, for instance, of Soviet Foreign Minister V.M. Molotov on his way to meet a German...
...yellow and green," recalled Judy Anderson. "You could hear the momentum and roar. It was all over in 20 seconds." And when the tornado was all over, so too was Anderson's home town, Barneveld, Wis. (pop. 580)-literally wiped off the earth in a matter of seconds by a twister that left nine of its residents dead, 77 hospitalized and only three of its buildings standing intact...
...acquire on my own a certain philosophical culture, and how frantic and depressed I became at my failure. What we needed and wanted, in the end, was not less University but more. Our most serious failing was not to have recognized that, and not to have used our momentum to try to improve the University. The exception was our third demand, the establishment of the Black Studies Department. After 15 years and some struggle it has become an institution. It was the only immediate success of the Harvard Strike...
...points to the nine to ten women's related courses this year and the 11 offered next year as evidence of a "momentum that has been building...
...Harvard and Radcliffe) developed great apathy and cynicism I saw this distressing anomie show up in colder personal relations, disillusionment with the administration and college institutions, political disinterest and constant major-switching, especially with the boys. We didn't know the reasons for it, and many people kept the momentum going, but it was uphill work...