Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jailing of Bertrand Russell, together with Anglican Missionary Michael Scott, a leading spokesman for Negro rights, only gave further momentum to the giant sitdown demonstration still scheduled for the weekend. Despite the underlying grimness, the whole affair took on a sort of gaiety. Among the latest eager ban-the-bombers were Angry Young Man John Osborne ("I shall be happy to go to gaol for six months"), Actresses Wendy Hiller and Vanessa Redgrave, Playwright Shelagh Delaney (Taste of Honey), Jazz Singer George Melly, Poet
...American resumption of nuclear testing, while wholly justifiable, can scarcely be expected to help resolve any of the outstanding issues of the cold war. On the contrary, it adds to the nuclear momentum that impels us to war. In the past, balances of power have collapsed through accident or design. Alternatives to the balance of terror should now be considered in order...
...preparations for a possible military showdown in Europe picked up momentum. At midweek the Pentagon ordered increased training and a standby for 148,000 Army Reservists and National Guardsmen. At week's end the Defense Department announced that 40,000 U.S. troops will move immediately to Western Europe to reinforce the 250,000 men already deployed there in five combat-ready infantry and armored divisions...
...Christian Temperance Union last week held its Syth annual convention, and the ladies addressed themselves in the name of God to "returning the nation to sobriety." That task is harder now than it was even in "those terrible days of wild drink" in the 1870s, when the WCTU gained momentum in Chicago under the embattled leadership of Frances E. Willard. Then the crusade against strong drink was part of the war between men and women; now the women seem to bend their pink elbows as much...
...hedge against inflation, investors early in the week drove the Dow-Jones industrial average to a record 713.94 (previous record: 705.96 in May). The averages were jolted back next day by an inadvertent Antitrust Division haymaker at giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (see Personal File), but the momentum was too great: by week's end the market had moved on to still another new high...