Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ebullience, Rockefeller knows that without a big break his chances may be doomed. There were a few hopeful signs, but nothing that was important enough to slow down Nixon's momentum. The South Dakota poll showed Rocky as the strongest candidate for President, despite Nixon's victory in last month's uncontested primary there. He got a good word from Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, who called him the best candidate still on the political scene...
...momentum" of the nuclear-arms race, as former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara once described it, lost a bit of velocity last week-after a vertiginous go-around between the world's two superpowers. First, the U.S. Senate voted to begin work on the nation's projected Sentinel anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, designed to provide a "thin" defense screen against enemy rockets. Barely 72 hours later, the Soviet Union called for talks on slowing down the debilitating pace of the missile race...
...doing away with the traditional concepts of strength." Stripped of Marxist-Leninist bafflegab, Gromyko's speech presumably indicated Soviet discomfiture over U.S. plans to go ahead with an ABM system of its own. Whatever Moscow's motives, it seemed genuinely inclined to slow down the nuclear momentum...
Jubilation Shouts. Meanwhile, the rhythm-&-blues strain was picking up new momentum, while post-Beatle rock charged off on its own creative path. The man who gave R & B its fresh thrust was a blind, Georgia-born bard named Ray Charles, one of the most hauntingly effective and versatile Negro singers in the history of pop music...
...been operating on the assumption that he could buy off the workers, whose demands until then had been purely economic, and then cope with the rebellious students who had started the crisis in the first place. With the non from the workers, the faltering Gaullist government lost all momentum. Plainly confused and dispirited, Ministers trekked in and out of the Elysee; De Gaulle and Pompidou seemed to be at the mercy of events that they could no longer control...