Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turning point in history towards an era full of peril but also of great promise." Largely unspoken at official levels but widely discussed in editorials was a widespread feeling that in its declining days, the Eisenhower Administration had somehow lost its first confident touch or, at any rate, lost momentum. Even those who were confident that Kennedy would make few changes in Eisenhower's basic policies talked of "a new impetus...
...Shades. On precarious Broadway, where months of work can end in one morning's disastrous reviews, some shows are too big to be destroyed by the critics and Camelot is bound to be one. Last year Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music had so much pre-Broadway momentum (a then unprecedented advance sale of about $2,000,000) that it crashed through a barricade of unenthusiastic reviews, and will probably run for another two years. Camelot, with more than $3,000,000 worth of tickets already sold, may find reviews ranging from rave to grave...
...sure Cuba will be the topic. Stir into this frenetic brew of telegrams Kennedy's assertion that the vice-President is "afraid" to debate with him and Nixon's statement that such an assertion is "sophomoric" and the lurch toward a fifth debate grows overpowering in its momentum...
Disappointed by its last minute frustration, the varsity opened the second half by allowing the Indians' Jim Lemen to return the kickoff 21 yards to the 44. Dartmouth seemed to have the momentum to go all the way during the Harvard lapse, but Pillsbury put an end to all that by pouncing on a loose fumble on the first play from scrimmage...
...Politics of Upheaval, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. In the third volume of his history, the author follows skillfully-and sometimes too admiringly-as the New Deal loses its first momentum and sets out in a different direction...