Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Predictably, the report lays most of the blame for the losing campaign on Candidates Barry Goldwater and William Miller, who "shifted emphasis erratically from day to day, achieving little continuity and no momentum. Issues were selected and articulated at the very times and places where they would do the ticket the most harm." Goldwater "read his speeches stoically and unenthusiastically. His rhetoric confused the debate and left him terribly vulnerable to charges of name-calling, smearing and carelessness." Moreover, says the report, the "Goldwater leadership clique" exercised "an oppressive exclusiveness that put loyalty to a small cabal ahead of loyalty...
Sensible pragmatism or rank heresy? Khrushchev himself provided the reformers with a text, if not an answer, late in 1962, when the debate was beginning to gather momentum. He reminded the Central Committee of "Lenin's directive that we be able, if necessary, to learn from the capitalists, to adopt whatever they have that is sensible and advantageous...
...prospect was hardly encouraging 18 months ago when Belaúnde took over after a bitterly fought election. With Peru's economy just starting to gather momentum, agitators within the unions were threatening crippling strikes, landless highland Indians were waging angry battles against their landowners, and businessmen were sending their money abroad for safekeeping...
...academicism of his teacher, William Merritt Chase, with the cubist masters, made a living as a photographer until his immaculate industrial visions caught on. He could refine the reality of a locomotive's monstrous driving wheels so that even when they are frozen in two dimensions, their tremendous momentum leaps...
...Liberal Democrats. In fact, the coalition is so broad that it can seek gradual reform, but hardly social revolution. If the reforms come thick and fast enough, King may hold most of the Negro leaders in line behind him. But the signs aren't hopeful. Revolutions have a momentum of their own, and a way of passing old leaders...