Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson "to urge him to become an active candidate." The suggestion was hardly necessary: although still coyly undeclared as a candidate for the Democratic nomination, L.B.J. was, as his slogan says, "all the way"-as active as any candidate on the road last week. His campaign was belatedly gathering momentum...
...doubt that Diefenbaker's momentum will carry him through another election, and the most recent Gallup poll backs the majority up. The May poll showed the Tories holding steady with 48% support to the Liberals' 37% and the Socialist CCF's 9%. Less conclusive, perhaps, but the sort of news Diefenbaker takes to heart, was another Gallup poll. Of eleven countries polled, Canadians owned up to being the happiest...
Last week, as a roundabout result of these international developments, a lively New Wavelet of cinematic creativity was rolling across the U.S. and gathering momentum by the moment. The beatnik film, Pull My Daisy, which runs only 29 minutes but seems considerably longer, is a sort of celluloid-muffled Howl. Financed (for $20,000) by a couple of Manhattan brokers, it features a few well-known beat bards (Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky) in a "free improvisation" on a scene from an unproduced play by Jack (On the Road) Kerouac. The beatniks stumble around a pad on Manhattan...
When he got takers?and he generally did?Arnie would carefully apply the overlapping grip that his father had been teaching him for two years, dig in his toes, draw back his undersized driver, and cut loose with a swing of such violence that the momentum often sent him sprawling on the ground?even as the ball headed out over the ditch. Pocketing his nickels, Arnie would confide to steady customers: "Some day I'm going to be a big golfer, like Bobby Jones...
...liberals are arrayed against Johnson, the Southern votes might well go to Missouri's Symington-in fact, in their Midwest sales pitch Johnson forces are snuggling close to Symington people. Should Johnson find the nomination safely tucked in his inner coat pocket, he would swing into the full momentum of Phase 3, a hell-for-leather national campaign against Nixon (whom he personally admires)-the kind of campaign that makes the Eyes of Texans gleam...