mentum

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On the Balance of Power: The Pres ident believes that Communist mo mentum, which picked up after Sputnik 1, has slackened.

From Time Magazine Archive

Making his playwriting debut at Manhattan's American Place Theater, Reynolds, 33, does not shape his plays with sufficient skill, but he does give them a wickedly comic mo mentum like an accomplished barstool raconteur.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cum sit uesta ponita10, doma tangit mentum; 24 Tunc in cute candida verrunt11 uermes centum.

From Erthe Upon Erthe by Various

The eruption first broke out upon the chin, whence it was called Mentagra, and is thus alluded to by Martial: Non ulcus acre, pustulæve lucentes; Nec triste mentum, sordidive lichenes.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

Epilobe: of mentum in Carabidae, really corresponds to a partially divided ligula: a lateral appendage of a bilobed mentum.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.