Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-year-olds?" asks Teacher Simmons. "The most important part of an education is the beginning . . . There is no such thing as an unimportant or expendable year in any child's life. In kindergarten, the five-year-old is just starting. The direction he is pointed and the momentum he gets may well determine his intellectual growth...
...California, Arizona and Hawaii, Bishop Kennedy has proved himself a tireless circuit rider. His 403 churches span 2,500 miles, embrace 225,000 members. He visits them all (he once dropped in on 23 parishes in one month) and averages seven sermons or speeches a week. Amid all his momentum, Bishop Kennedy can be pungently articulate. Examples: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: "It simply doesn't work. Look at the crime rates." AMERICAN EDUCATION : "A kind of state-supported baby-sitting service." SOUTH AFRICA: "The foundation of law has been destroyed. I am reminded of the old proverb: 'Whom the gods...
...high (155,475) and the 1956 first-quarter record (406,204). Ford sales jumped from 4,000 cars sold a day at the beginning of March to 5,200 sold daily at month's end. Said a Ford official: "It looks as if a lot of sales momentum is building up." If the surge continues, automakers are confident that the upswing will move out many of the 1,000,000 cars now in showrooms. They plan to turn out 1,700,000 cars in the second quarter v. 2,000,000 in the first three months. With General Motors...
When he has wrecked the Oriental T-bird on a quick-built brick and mortar tariff wall, Business Man moves on to do battle with Collective Man. They square off and slug it out with slogans. Collective Man lands two left hooks: "The irresistible historical momentum of the workers' movement" and "the forward thrust of Soviet science." Business Man fights back with collective bargaining and the eight-hour day, follows up with everything from recovered space monkeys to the thinking man's filter. Momentarily victorious, he says: "Come back next week to see how I straighten out that...
...Sweep? Even so, while it was clear that Jack Kennedy made no startling inroads in the Humphrey country, some of Wisconsin's seasoned politicos began to sense a building Kennedy momentum across the state. That was the reading even in ruggedly impartial high places in the State House at Madison. "On the basis of what I've been hearing from state senators and assemblymen lately," said one of Wisconsin's most knowledgeable officials, "it would not surprise me-in an election held today-if Jack Kennedy swept the state. I don't mean, just the popular...