Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later. That was in July. Taking things easy at home, he now finds he can get around without trouble, can even climb stairs. Cardiac surgeons will watch Watkins' progress when he goes back to work in a couple of weeks to see whether the omentum can give fresh momentum to failing hearts such...
Conversations à deux. Pierre Mendès-France was a man traveling on momentum. He had no natural following in the Assembly, and had to exploit swiftly the prestige he won at Geneva. But even if he had not promised prompt action on Tunisia, some action would have been required by the situation. In the past month Tunisian terrorists have made 130 attacks on colons and pro-French compatriots, killing 93 victims, wounding...
...fire out of the rebels' anti-Red crusade. Diaz announced that the "struggle against the mercenary invaders of Guatemala will not abate," and went on uncrating his new Iron-Curtain shooting irons. But Castillo Armas, after a slow start, had already toppled his major target, and now had momentum as well as his deadly planes...
Another wheat harvest is gathering momentum, adding inexorably to the $3.5 billion worth of government-owned farm surpluses already piled up in granaries and storage warehouses...
...right. An enthusiastic runner, he was told he might never run again. Halberg did not believe the doctors. As soon as he was up and about, he began to run, holding his left arm against his chest, using his right in the traditional pumping movement necessary for balanced momentum...