Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supporting France, the U.S. will also help mend its sagging NATO fences. However one regards the Congo crisis, it certainly demonstrated a disturbing lack of western unity. No matter how much the U.S. feels pressured by the increasing momentum of African nationalism, it cannot forget its allies and its interests...
...auspices under which Nigeria achieves independence give reason to hope for political and social stability for the immediately foreseeable future of the next three to five years. The momentum of effective administration and constitutional self-government built up under the colonial regime should tide the country over such difficulties as may emerge in the first years of independence, and the move towards economic development is at least spottily under way. It must, however, be very much speeded and expanded if it is to absorb the flood of youngsters pouring from the primary schools, educated to a distaste for return...
...Politics of Upheaval, by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. In the third volume (1935-36) of his massive history, the author follows skillfully-and sometimes too admiringly-as the New Deal loses its first momentum and, after reassessment, sets out in a different direction...
Bing's undergraduate experience is presented in four acts, each describing one of the four years of college. The first three years rush along, like a well-executed locomotive yell, at a relentlessly accelerating rate of rah-rah and haha, and if the last year somehow loses momentum, it does not much matter-the audience needs a rest by that time anyway. Bing gives it the old college try, and if he cannot sing so well as he used to or act any better than he ever did, that does not much matter either. A younger generation-represented mainly...
...business what it must not do." Big Brother was replaced by Dutch Uncle. Social evangelists of centralized planning, e.g., Rexford Guy Tugwell, gave way to the legal bird dogs of reform recruited mostly from Harvard Law School by Tommy Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen. As Schlesinger sees it, the heady momentum of social experimentation had been lost, Roosevelt temporarily wallowed in "a stew of indecision." and a narrow Supreme Court majority stood poised to strike down NRA, AAA and a host of other government alphabetical agencies...