Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reinstatement of spring practice, which is now gaining momentum from undeniably strong student and public opinion, will probably receive more consideration than it has in the past from the committee. A compromise agreement--perhaps practice for non-lettermen or freshmen--is often considered the first step which the committee might take...
Eventually all the lines of Pacific command, all the responsibilities of the joint command, come back to Don Felt. Felt the diplomat must preserve the momentum that is leading to SEATO's improvement. Felt the politician must get sufficient support from Congress for the U.S. military aid program. Felt the military commander must know about Communist military threats before they are full-blown so that he can back up national armies against external threats, give them time to train up to the skills of Chinese Communist or local guerrillas...
...Momentum. With Sylvia Porter, "your dollar" comes first. Every column she has written is carefully scrapbooked. Rising about 8:30 in the morning, Sylvia speeds husband and daughter goodbye with a kiss-kiss; by 8:50, sipping coffee in her bedroom and nervously smoking, she is deep in the business section of the Times and all of the Wall Street Journal. ("Here I don't read; I study.") In 20 taut minutes, a mind that can sponge whole columns at a glance has trapped all that Sylvia needs...
This kind of momentum is probably what it takes to stay abreast of a business world whose unpredictability and changes Sylvia Porter understands as well as any observer. Her whole philosophy, in fact, is based on momentum. "There are two ways of looking at today's economic society," she says. "One is to preserve what you have. The other is to say, 'This won't do at all.' In recent years, we've only been protecting. You can't have a dynamic society and sit. We are supposed to have a competitive system...
...After the war, the momentum of his great days in the '30s carried him through a series of mediocre films, but not through a mismatched 1949-52 marriage to Lady Sylvia Ashley, widow of Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and ex-wife of a couple of British peers...