Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some White House callers have said privately that Ike is determined not to run for a second term. Last week such reports gained momentum when Ike told newsmen that the Bricker amendment would not affect his Administration, since it could not be adopted in the next three years. The statement caused concern among some Republican leaders, who think that the 1956 campaign will be waged on the Eisenhower record, and that the best candidate for that platform will be Dwight Eisenhower...
...clearing prodigious heights. They set up a standard high-jump crossbar, and Browning cleared 6 ft. 6 in., a good height for any high jumper. A bit later, he tumbled himself over the 7-ft. mark. His technique: a running, springing aerial twist into a backward handspring, which supplies momentum for a final backward double somersault up & over the bar. Some sportswriters began calling Browning "the potential track sensation of the century...
...pictures of the Soviet leaders seated at their desks before the Supreme Soviet, his bullet head loomed larger-from a white blur on the packed backbenches to a big, pale face, edging close to Stalin, and now to Malenkov. Khrushchev's advance was silent, but it had the momentum...
Starting slowly with an unnecessarily long exposition, the film gradually picks up momentum until the start of the hour-and-a-half-long chase. From that point on it clicks along at a merry rate as doctor and girl, in possession of the Great Secret, flee from a determined state police. The flight, which carries them up a cable car and over a series of Alp-like peaks, is beautifully executed...
...form of an antique vestement has been accumulating momentum for several years and may soon be de rigeur. This is the weskit, a gaily decorated reincarnation of the banker's vest. The most popular of these is the tattersal (alternately colored narrow, criss-cross lines). Solid colors are definitely in dis-favor...