Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real tough primary and the preconvention battle we had, and where we were when we went to Kansas City, I'm not only pleased but amazed at the kind of progress we've made. I think it's a real horse race. We have the momentum going. I'm confident that we're going to continue to make headway, and I think we've got time...
...very slight underdog. At this stage of the campaign, I'd rather have the momentum going up, rather than being where my opponent is-sliding down and trying to hold the lead. Our people are enthusiastic. They're confident, while I detect that [the Carter people] are getting in some disarray...
...case of the Middle East, [Carter] really hasn't been very specific. I don't think he really understands the basic successes of the Geneva Conference and the Sinai II agreement, and the need to capitalize on that momentum, or what most experts would agree is the requirement for a comprehensive settlement in the Middle East. It's very complicated. It requires some really fundamental understanding of the relations of Israel to Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, plus the complicating factor in Lebanon. In that area, we both may have the same objectives...
...think the momentum of justice, democracy, majority rule and true African liberation can be stayed by pious, self-serving pronouncements of conversion to "the true faith" made by diplomatic poker players like Kissinger, Callaghan and Ian Smith/John Vorster, you are crazy. More to the point, you are demonstrating to the Third World tunnel vision and psychopathogenic shortsightedness characteristic of a ruling class that is fading from the mainstream of man's historical evolution...
While street demonstrations gained momentum, Communist Party headquarters in Peking offered some clues to the future direction of the antiradical movement. An editorial in the official People's Daily charged that "those who engage in conspiracies and intrigues are the real 'capitalist roaders' in the party." In other words, the purged quartet were not really leftists but rightists in disguise. The radicals had attacked as capitalist roaders former Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, the man once slated to succeed the late Chou En-lai as Premier, and thousands of other victims of their own ideological...