Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this ever-widening genre of strike literature hits upon a precarious balance between these equally undesirable poles. As an active member of the moderate Memorial Church group. Zorza must certainly have gained insights and observations that could contribute to a sounder understanding of why the strike failed to gather momentum and fell apart the way it did. Most of that insight, however, is forever buried beneath his swollen, badly cliched rhetoric...
...Viet Cong." When asked whether the Cambodian incursion would set back the enemy by as much as six months or even a year, Thieu replied: "Oh, more than that, more than that. They can still infiltrate from the North, but it will not be enough to sustain the momentum...
...Momentum. If the prohibition concerning Laos and Thailand was not an infringement of the President's power as Commander in Chief, then the constitutional argument concerning Cambodia would seem to be weakened. On the other hand, if restrictions on the President's flexibility were accepted as commonplace, they could proliferate to excess. Both law and common sense dictate that the President respond as quickly as necessary to threats to U.S. security. The air and nuclear age make it impossible for the President to seek congressional approval, formal or otherwise, in every contingency. Because the issues are gray...
...stake really are politics and psychological momentum. In a period when he is besieged by protest, the President cannot afford an official Senate rebuke, even if the House modified it enough to make it meaningless in material terms. Also, Cooper-Church and McGovern-Hatfield serve as rallying points for the moderate majority of the protest movement. In the upcoming fall congressional elections, the way legislators voted on the amendments will also represent tests by which candidates may be judged on the war issue. From the Administration's viewpoint, then, it would have been far better to keep the amendments...
MEMORIES, especially memories within a political or cultural movement, have always been exploitable commodities. When swathed in the rhetoric of one side or the other, they gain momentum and become issues: impounded in books and supported by experts, they gain time and become history. But rarely are they presented to us without the benefit of afterglow or hindsight-and yet it is only when they stand alone that they permit us to remember the past in its own peculiar light and to see the present as growing from that past...