Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second installment of his book, Mr. Schlesinger gives the clear impression that the Bay of Pigs invasion occurred as the result of bureaucratic momentum and bad advice. And yet the President never censured any of his advisers -- partly, no doubt, out of magnanimity, but primarily because he knew that the ultimate decision and responsibility were his alone. Mr. Schlesinger himself indicates that the New Frontier became easily exasperated at the "sentimentality" which questioned the principles and ends of American foreign policy. This may help to explain why the advice of Senator Fulbright and Ambassador Bowles was not taken...
...worse as the U.S. poured in more men and equipment, and as the Viet Cong chewed up battalion after battalion of South Vietnamese troops. To be sure, the U.S. ground force had little chance to do more than establish its defense perimeters during those hectic months; the Communists gained momentum by launching their own monsoonal drive. Since the onset of the summer rains two months ago, the stain of Red domination has spread swiftly (see map); the Communists now control 65% of the countryside and fully 55% of the country's 16 million population...
...Already the hour is late. Government has laid its hand on health, housing, farming, industry, commerce, education, and to an ever-increasing degree interferes with the people's right to know. Government tends to grow. Government programs take on weight and momentum...
Lyndon Johnson is not the only Western leader to suffer the slings and arrows of criticism by vociferous intellectuals. As West Germany's election campaign gathers momentum, Chancellor Ludwig Erhard is also hearing the wrath of eggheads. Their complaint is hardly so dramatic an issue as Viet Nam is in the U.S.; they grumble that der Dicke and his party have been in power far too long, seem to suggest that there is far too much German prosperity for the good of the German soul...
Apparently his spark plugs were fouled. Hill's B.R.M. pit crew heard the rough engine too. Graham caught their frantic signals, grimly poured it on. Drifting through the corners as tightly as possible, slipstreaming other cars to gain momentum before he passed, Hill began to eat into Clark's lead at the rate of 3 sec. or more a lap. Clark knew Hill was coming; he kept glancing over his shoulder, ducking back to fiddle with his controls, trying to coax some response out of his sputtering engine...