Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israelis welcomed Johnson's move as a symbol of U.S. support in the face of a buildup of Arab forces. For the same reason, the Arabs reacted with fury. Still to be determined was how the sale would affect what a U.S. diplomat called a "small but precious momentum for peace" that has been building up at the United Nations...
Diplomatic Pressure. It was largely a manufactured momentum, reinforced by the fact that the foreign ministers of the hostile parties were attending the U.N. General Assembly. Arabs and Israelis felt the diplomatic pressure to the extent of revealing the negotiating positions that they had disclosed privately to Gunnar Jarring, the U.N.'s Middle East mediator...
Though his campaign seemed to be gaining momentum last week, Hubert Humphrey remains in deep trouble. Not the least of the old liberal's afflictions is the continued disaffection-and often outright hostility-of many fellow liberals. Walter Lippmann endorsed Richard Nixon, arguing that the Republican is a "maturer and mellower man" than he used to be and that the Democrats need a period of "rest and recuperation." Murray Kempton wrote that the Democrats "deserve to lose." Novelist Norman Mailer concluded that Nixon might not be all that bad (see THE PRESS). Michigan's New Democratic Coalition refused...
...little doubt that the shouters help rather than hurt. A huge majority of Americans (86% according to the Harris poll) profess to admire him for having the "courage to say what he really thinks." With a month to go to Election Day, Wallace appears, if anything, to be gaining momentum...
...demonstration. SAS's decision to evict the whites and barricade the doors in a demonstration of black student power--one of the key turning points--was a response to an occasion thrust upon the black students. With each successive day the uprising gathered its own physical and emotional momentum...