Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Threatened Lead. The President also had a warning: "I must say to you in all gravity that, in spite of both the present overall strength and the forward momentum of our defense, it is entirely possible that in the years ahead we could fall behind. I repeat: we could fall behind-unless we now face up to certain pressing requirements and set out to meet them at once...
...SUCCESSOR may be brilliant French designer Pierre Cardin, 33, who helped late master create New Look before opening own fashion house. Others in the running: House of Dior Designers Yves Saint Laurent and Yorn Michaelsen, who worked closely with Dior. Company will probably coast along for a year on momentum and designs left by Dior, but test of its ability to continue Dior's flair will come in August with showing of big winter collection...
...many countries, such as the U.S. and France, the growing practice of tying wage rates to the cost of living, either by government decree or union-employer contract, gives speed and added momentum to the wage-price spiral. Formerly there was a time lag before wages adjusted to prices, during which time the price rise might be reversed, making a wage rise unnecessary. Today the process is automatic. One country questioning the practice is Finland. There escalator wages are considered a major cause of the inflation that is so severe that the Finmark had to be devalued on Sept...
...watch obsolete airplanes." He developed the point with even more emphasis to a brace of visiting British M.P.s. "Bombers are obsolete," he said. "You might as well throw them on the fire. You cannot send human flesh and blood to fight things like that." To keep up the psychological momentum, the Russians announced at week's end the successful testing of a new hydrogen warhead for a guided missile...
...accompanying a busload of revelers on a daylong ride from one pub to another, till "dusk came down warm and gentle on thirty wild, wet, pickled, splashing men without a care in the world at the end of the world in the West of Wales"-that Williams gathers more momentum and garners a real harvest of laughs...