Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wedding Right. Alfred's eldest son, Friedrich Alfred, did not like either business or steel, spent most of his time poking through zoological books in his Capri home. Yet the Krupp company had built up such momentum that in the 15 years of Friedrich Alfred's reign the number of Krupp workers rose to 43,000, the huge steel foundry at Rheinhausen was built, and all high-quality steel plates in Germany came to be called Krupp-Panzer. Four years after his death in 1902. Friedrich Alfred's daughter and only child. Bertha, married a Prussian counselor...
...Stalinists who (he said) wanted to bring back the hated tyranny; yet it was he who was setting up a one-man dictatorship. Perhaps Khrushchev hoped to avoid a return to the unprofitable nightmare of Stalinist horror. Yet in the deadly Soviet game of power, victory has its own momentum and defeat its own awful logic. The "lose and live" policy, which lasted while the forces of power were in uneasy equilibrium, might not survive now that Khrushchev is in control. The increasing mentions of the "Leningrad Case" (see below) suggested that Malenkov may not be around long...
...tough league, indeed, and a tight race, and the Reds are counting on Birdie to keep them rolling. "This is a game of momentum," says he. "If a ball club gets hot and they begin to roll, you can throw all the statistics in the world right out the window...
...Game of Momentum. This year, if ever, Birdie has reason to concentrate on baseball. Cincinnati fans have already decided that the pennant is in the bag. They are so proud of their team that they have stuffed the All-Star ballot boxes so full that the All-Star game voting (which picks every starter except the pitchers) has been reduced to a patriotic absurdity. The poll count decreed that the National League start Cincinnati Redlegs at every position except first base. There, St. Louis' sturdy oldtimer Stan Musial managed to stand off the Redlegs' rooters. Though the balloting...
Houseman has come up with a superb example of living theatre, a production of tremendous impact and impetus. The marvelous characteristically Baroque drive and momentum are there, thanks in part to the right pace throughout. To this end he has wisely allowed only one ten-minute intermission. And he insisted that there be no pause or lowering of curtain between scenes, a demand that fortunately Rouben Ter-Aruntunian's ingeniously mobile slatted sets and a precision-drilled stage crew have been able to meet. He moves his cast fluidly over the stage and the apron that projects into the audience...