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

Frons, rictus, et mentum vibrissis rigidis, elongatis, armati.

From Zoological Illustrations, Volume II or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by Swainson, William

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)

Summit of spire heterostrophic; a projection, the mentum, between head and foot; operculum present.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various