Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trends are valiantly appearing. A salesgirl in the Coop spoke lovingly new round playing cards which were so popular that the store couldn't keep them in stock." There was a gleam of enthusiasm in her eyes and a growing momentum of rapture in her voice. With trembling fingers she opened a catalogue and showed their picture. "We're not re-ordering them the saleslady next to her stated definitively...
...forte in the first two numbers of the program, here he used his six-foot build to advantage: the Steinway really stomped. Again in the third movement, an "Allegretto," Boyk travelled presto. As a result, he had to stretch rhythms at the crucial transitions. But the music's momentum carried the listener through in one long dash to a brilliant conclusion...
Until the final gun, Michigan State's hustling Spartans never let up. The backs slashed through the line behind jarring double-team blocking, dumbfounded the defense with intricate double reverses. When the running attack occasionally lost momentum, Quarterback Pete Smith picked off receivers with bull's-eye accuracy. And the foe was no pushover: Michigan had already beaten both U.C.L.A. and Army this season by lopsided scores. But even for Coach Bump Elliott's gang-tackling team, Michigan State depth and power were too much. Final score: Michigan State, 28; Michigan...
...Civil War has become almost a minor industry in itself within the book trade. One historian after another has trampled out his own vintage from the fabled grapes of wrath. The boom dates roughly from 1934 and Douglas Southall Freeman's R. E. Lee; it picked up momentum in 1942 with Freeman's Lee's Lieutenants (which still sells thousands of copies a year), and has been surging ever since. In 1961. the Civil War's 100th anniversary year, more than 250 Civil War books have been published, and even the most trivial of them command...
What does the changing U.S. jobography mean? For one thing, says Wolfbein, "we may see less of the classic pattern of job hunters flooding into the North from the South." For another, the shift shows the momentum of the force that creates chronic-unemployment areas when industry moves out-a problem that no one yet fully understands how to remedy. And it points up the need to explain the story of the new industrial map to the rapidly growing horde of new workers, so that a Southern boy training to be a die cutter will realize that he does...