Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tough Wellesley defense, combined with sloppy Radcliffe passing, added up to a thriller for the extremely vocal Wellesley fans. The incredible uproar that arose from the peanut gallery with every Wellesley triumph fizzled the 'Cliffe's momentum time and again and helped Wellesley pull close whenever defeat seemed imminent...
...share the exploring spirit, reach for the unknown, enjoy the multiplication of our wants, live in a world whose rhetoric is advertising, whose standard of living has become its morality - yet avoid the delusions of Utopia and live a life within satisfying limits? Can we be exhilarated by the momentum that carries us willy-nilly beyond our imaginings and yet have some sense of control over our own destiny...
...more than two years later, the letter campaign has picked up new momentum-so that the FCC has had to add two extra staffers to clear out its clogged mailroom. On an average working day, the postman now carts in some 7,500 antipetition letters-for a total of nearly 5 million pieces of mail...
...popular CB rig from $159 to $59; one store sold 20 in two hours. Despite movement of such items, retailers are generally conservative as they enter 1977. There is no rush to build inventories, and about all most sellers hope for is a carryover of at least some Christmas momentum into this year...
...France's large capitalists by breaking ranks with Giscard's majority on any serious reform issues. The difference between them will remain in strong-arm appeal; he will oppose the rage of the lower-middle classes against the Giscardian liberalism of the upper-middle classes. To keep his political momentum going, Chirac will have to raise the rhetorical, and reactionary, stakes...