Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particularly opportune time for Kennedy to begin looking like a ballot-box strong man. Humphrey's campaign has been steadily picking up momentum. A Congressional Quarterly survey of Democratic Senators and Representatives showed Humphrey favored as the party's "strongest" candidate by a margin of 4 to 1 over Kennedy, 11 to 1 over McCarthy. On the eve of last week's voting, Humphrey bested Kennedy in Louis Harris poll pairings against both Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller...
Psychologically down after easy wins against weaklings Williams and Dartmouth in the last two weeks. Harvard could do little to stop the Blue. Yale, improving tremendously each game, managed to maintain enough of the momentum that inspired them to tie defending Ivy champ Princeton, 8-8, last week, and had no trouble at all with the Crimson...
...present, all three candidates have far more urgent concerns. For McCarthy, it is a question of survival. One or two primary losses may sink him, while his victories so far have kept him just barely afloat. Kennedy must restore his momentum, as he hopes to do in the primaries. Humphrey can only resort to more tenuous tactics. He must fight for his share of attention, but not campaign so combatively as to belie his banner as the unity candidate. He must also extend an olive branch to attract some of McCarthy's delegates if the opportunity arises...
...first formal appearance as leader of the country, dissolved Parliament and called for new general elections on June 25. Thus, ignoring considerable party opinion that he should prove himself to the voters before going to the polls, Trudeau decided to push ahead and try to capitalize on the political momentum that propelled him almost overnight from the Justice Ministry in Pearson's government into his country...
...been expanding outward ever since, but at a rate that is steadily decelerating be cause of gravitational pull of each particle of matter on all the others. If the total mass of the universe is less than a certain value, cosmologists say, gravitational pull will never fully overcome the momentum imparted by the big bang; the universe will then continue to expand forever. But if the universal mass is large enough, the outrushing galaxies will eventually be slowed to a stop and then will begin falling back together again...