Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rich Venezuela. With weapons and funds smuggled in from Cuba, the Castroite Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación National (FALN) in the early 1960s terrorized both Caracas and the countryside, murdering policemen, blowing up pipelines, and bombing department stores. Two years ago, the rebels began to lose their momentum and holed up in the hills. Last month a bombing here, a machine-gunning there seemed to signal a return to the old pattern. Last week came a climax of sorts: in separate ambushes, FALN gunmen assassinated a member of the highest military court and wounded the army chief of staff...
...Momentum. The 79-year-old Trib used to have the field practically to itself. It was a home away from home for expatriate journalists, who turned out consistently lively copy for resident Americans. It kept them well informed about the U.S., but it also managed to cover the rest of the world from a decidedly European viewpoint. And always it was interested in everything Parisian...
...moved to Paris and started a more ambitious international edition. The Trib, which had been breaking even, soon slipped into the red. But the Times's losses were still greater, and the two papers opened merger talks. Then the deal fell through, and the competition picked up new momentum...
...West during the 18th century, a new view gathered momentum-that a man's life was his own to do with as he pleased. Slowly, sanctions against suicide began to be lifted. In the U.S., attempted suicide is still a felony or a misdemeanor in nine states, though the laws are rarely enforced. Even the Roman Catholic Church has modified its position. It is not unusual these days to give a suicide a proper Roman Catholic funeral and a consecrated grave, on the ground "that his demented soul did not possess sufficient freedom of will for his heinous deed...
...will take on next January. The task of running the most populous state in the Union, accommodating the 1,000 new arrivals who pour in daily, satisfying California's insatiable demands for more schools, roads, hospitals and?not least?water, demands an activist Governor. However great the momentum of past programs, the impetus of growth in such states as New York and California has invariably proved greater. Actually, though he has promised to cut back on wasteful state programs, Reagan admits that his "creative society" will not come cheap...