Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loss of momentum is seen too in Goldwater's choice of words. In 1960, Nixon telegraphed his own sense of defeat when he began to adopt Kennedy's language, when he too insisted that America must move forward. Now it is Goldwater solemnly (and unconsciously) explaining the need for prudence and responsibility in the Executive branch...
More important, the report already has a good deal of momentum. The Doty Committee took two years and much pain to arrive at unanimity. The Committee on Educational Policy approved the report 8-1, and the one dissenting member, Frank H. Westheimer, Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry, will be doing research this fall and doesn't plan to oppose the legislation actively. The Dean of the Facuty favors the report. Besides, the advocates are operating in something of a power vacuum; very few individual professors who have not already had a hand in the report care enough about General Education...
Limited as these pass agreements are, no one knows better than Khrushchev that freedoms have a way of developing a momentum of their own. There is a distinctly European and growing body of opinion, typified by Jean Monnet, spearhead of the Continent's postwar unity drive, that the solution to Europe's largest problem-the burning question of Germany's division-lies in the melding of all the nations of Europe...
While the auto settlement gave a big push to the market, it was not responsible for its basic momentum: the market had been moving up on bullish business news for five straight sessions before the Detroit settlement. The auto agreement opened the way to further increases by raising the prospect of mild inflation and by removing what seemed to many the last immediate obstacle to continued prosperity...
Certainly, it is too early to establish odds on the election. The areas of Goldwater strength are selective and outside the big power centers, such as New York and Pennsylvania. Barry is still flying high on the cloud of post-convention momentum that buoys any newly anointed candidate. Lyndon Johnson has not yet begun to fight. And beyond this, Barry is riding on a wave of white backlash against the summer's civil rights violence that could rise or diminish between now and November. With all these areas of doubt, the political news last week was that so many...