Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...detachment when he looks at himself. "I learn all the time," he says. Just last summer, touring Europe after his Olympic victory, he picked up a pointer from a German trainer. The trick, which reverses standard U.S. coaching theory: go into a turn at top speed, let momentum carry you around. "It's much less tiring," says Whitfield, "and I haven't run a poor race since I learned...
...Menace of Momentum. Still in the framework set by foreign policy, the President moved easily to the "inescapable need for economic health and strength if we are to maintain adequate military power and exert leadership for peace in the world." The ultimate economic aims are still a balanced budget, a reduction of taxes, and a checkrein on "the menace of inflation." But "the momentum of past programs' (i.e., Harry Truman's commitments) will delay tax reduction until "we can succeed in bringing the budget under control" (unlikely...
...Deal." He was wrong. In assessing the needs of agriculture, collective bargaining, social security, and public education, the President borrowed chapter and verse from the New Deal. The industrial changes that make the New Deal an economic necessity and a political bonanza have gained, not lost, in momentum since...
...revolution had lost momentum, inevitably. Four months ago, Naguib had jailed 62 old-line politicians, including such discredited jobholders as Fuad Serag el Din, Wafd Party secretary general. Last week all were free...
...Lost Momentum. Less than a month stood last week between him and his deadline. As he stepped out of his bulletproof Cadillac to preside over another midnight sitting of his nine-man military politburo, the onetime jaunty bounce was gone...