Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minh divisions; 2) in the. Red River valley, where a wedge of French armor, backed by 15,000 Vietnamese troops, linked up with French paratroops dropped in the enemy rear; 3) in the Hanoi delta, where Giap had touched off a 40,000-man guerrilla attack to brake French momentum...
Home again after a year of Paris, Harrison found the tides beginning to turn. The Renaissance revival was losing momentum; the skyscraper boom of the '205 was under way. Harrison left McKim, Mead & White and went to work for Bertram Goodhue, who had just woh a competition for the Nebraska state capitol. Harrison worked on some of the dome designs for the capitol, and became one of Goodhue's top designers...
...enormous momentum which the welfare state gives to the political party in power was being demonstrated last week through U.S. farm areas. In November, the farm vote probably will be crucial; theoretically both candidates have an equal chance to get it. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture-merely applying the law and using the taxpayers' money-was able to remind farmers that the Democratic Party wouldn't let even nature "take it away." The surprising paradox is that the "ins" are able simultaneously to garner political credits from a disastrous drought in some parts...
Truman, who had cooled somewhat on Stevenson, let it be known that he thought Barkley would be a good candidate. The Barkley boom began to gather surprising momentum-until it was knocked on the head by organized labor. The labor leaders who exercise a veto ("Clear everything with Sidney") on major Democratic decisions, did not object to Barkley on factional grounds. They simply decided that his age (74) made him a difficult candidate to sell to union members...
...hands." Specifically, the governors were against letting contested delegates vote on other contested delegates, a point that could be seen as critical five weeks before the convention opened (TIME, June 9). The first floor vote came on this question. When the Taft forces lost that, they lost initiative and momentum and never regained it. That they held together to the last was evidence of the strong emotional charge in the Taft campaign; it was not due to brilliant organization or leadership...