Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little more than a picture-book pageant of the period's "wonderful normalcy" -of World Series heroes, movie stars and politics-as-usual. And the future appeared even brighter than the present. U.S. business was bouncing off the ropes of a minor recession and picking up momentum for the boom of the '20s. The news that reached the public was often frivolous, frequently reflecting the optimism of the day, only occasionally weighted with vague foreboding of more troubled days to come. Every village was its own hub of the universe, and Washington had a quality of dreamworld remoteness...
...miners. Today they have half, and a new brick union hall. Says Brown: "They needed a few francs for a mimeograph machine and a full-time organizer. But most of all they needed to feel they were not alone." By December 1947, there was enough free union momentum in France to form Force Ouvrière, and old Mailly was on hand when it was born...
Four-Man Bobsled. Germany's heavyweight team (total weight: 1,050 Ibs.), driven by World Champion Andreas Ostler, edged out the U.S.'s Stan Benham & Co. (weight: 970 Ibs.), by 2.6 seconds in four heats. Since added weight means added momentum, the Olympic Committee has ruled that hereafter average weight shall not exceed 220 Ibs. per man. Sighed one fat bobsledder: "It's diet or quit...
...spurt of progress usually follows, and then the deadlock settles down again. Hopeful observers who in July hoped for peace in August, and in October hoped for peace in November, and now hope for peace by New Year's, suffer from what might be called the fallacy of momentum. They assume that each spurt of progress will generate enough energy to carry the negotiators quickly over all the remaining obstacles. It never seems to work out that way. The Communists are old hands at the deadlock business...
...Georgia Corpse. The big change came with express-train momentum, but it was a long time getting started. The plight of the old Cotton South was well illustrated by Henry Grady, managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution. To a Boston audience in 1889, he described the funeral of a "one-gallus" man in Pickens County, Ga. Said Grady...