Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most sweeping change is the gathering momentum of the People's Revolution. When Gaddafi launched it, he noted that Libya's legal code was mostly the product of "Italian and British imperialism." Since it would take years to draft a new code, he suspended all existing laws and authorized the people's committees to proceed on an ad hoc basis, governed only by "the full precepts of justice, the commandments of Islam and the interests of the people." The committees have gone on a witch-hunting, book-burning binge, aimed at restoring Libya to Islamic purity...
Still, the board generally agreed on the picture for the rest of 1973: sheer momentum will propel the gross national product to a new peak of roughly $1,282 billion, a gain of $130 billion from 1972. Last week boom euphoria even lifted the battered stock market; the Dow Jones industrial average leaped 29 points on Thursday, its biggest one-day jump in 21 months. The rise partly reflected news that U.S. international trade has swung back into surplus...
...breakin, Haldeman told him that no big White House job was available. If he faced Senate confirmation, he was sure to be grilled about G.O.P. campaign tactics. A special post was created for him at the Commerce Department. From there it was all downhill, as the Watergate investigation gathered momentum and revealed that Magruder had been lying when he said he had no advance knowledge of the breakin. Last week Magruder gave up his Commerce job. He may well go to jail for perjury...
...play it the way he wants because I can't resist him." Apart from his candor, orchestras respond to Solti partly because of his personal combination of warmth and frost, partly because of his seemingly endless store of energy and intensity. "With Solti there's always this momentum going," says Jay Friedman, principal trombonist of the Chicago. "The architecture of a piece of music always comes across. Even in very slow passages you're never standing still. I think it's because something metaphysical happens. The music he makes seems to transcend what he does physically...
...there it stayed. Although the momentum was obviously Princeton's, Harvard stalled when it had the ball to stave off the final splurge...