Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter disagreed with the conclusion that the Oregon defeat, combined with previous losses in Nebraska and Maryland and his squeaker win in Michigan, meant that his campaign was stalled. But he reluctantly acknowledged a "psychological setback in momentum." The damage from the string of defeats was readily reflected in several caucus states as they continued selecting delegates. Cooled off about Carter, Missouri Democrats gave him only 28 delegates instead of the 40 that he had reckoned on. A week earlier, he ended up with only 23 pledged delegates in Virginia -17 fewer than anticipated-though at least...
...There is a momentum or thrust in these things. [Maryland] indicates that my campaign has potential. But I just take it one week at a time. I don't have any plan other than trying to make an impact on the Democratic Party throughout the country. The importance of timing is an axiom of politics. You can't control everything, but my course is on an ascending trajectory. Carter's has slowed...
...assault on the ear. The Dictator's nonsense talk strikes the viewer as brilliant from the moment he hears it. In fact, all the hostile humor in the picture strikes home, and the Hynckel sequences are all memorable. Unfortunately, the sappy stretches go after the viewer with the insistent momentum of a molasses tidal wave and one wonders where Chaplin comes off with the nerve of portraying the persecuted as these sweet-eyed Jews the puts on the screen. Paulette Goddard really gets insufferable, but the globe-ballet is perhaps the most wondrous piece of screen acting of the greatest...
...reaction was checked during Dr. Mossadegh's premiership (1951-53), when the mass movement gained momentum once more around the issue of nationalizing the foreign oil monopolies. But the CIA moved in and mobilized all the reactionaries, the fascists of the Reza Shah era, and the coup of 1953 put an end to democracy...
...support in what could be the most crucial contest so far in his political career. After a string of five primary losses to Reagan, climaxed by a defeat in Nebraska last week, he needs a victory in Michigan as well as Maryland to slow the challenger's momentum and narrow his 468-318 lead in committed delegates (see chart). A loss at home might not be fatal to the President's chances, but it would be crippling and humiliating...