Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Added McWhirter: "That is essentially why any remaining opposition miscalculates not only the momentum of the movement, but its deep and broad-based commitment to making profound social changes that will make any return to the past impossible. Observed an ex-army officer imprisoned for 15 years under the Shah: 'The people are ready to starve themselves before they give in. They've already gone so far in self-sacrifice. They are determined...
...joined City Ballet. He is the scarlet king of the revelers. He swivels into furious spins, only to leap high - and go right on whirling again. It is an audacious, fiendishly difficult cadenza on the pirouette. In other spins he slows down suddenly, as if sinking into his own momentum. For sheer bravura, the high light is a series of leaps that resemble a broad jumper's hitch kick. He kicks into the air with the left leg, brings the right even higher, executing in effect a double jump suspended in air. Robbins, who worked out this unprecedented move...
Dallas had a 14-7 lead and Bradshaw had to recapture the momentum after two straight turnoevers. On third and five from his own 25, Bradshaw hit Stallworth at the Pittsburgh 35 and the lanky wide receiver eluded Cowboy defensive back Aaron Kyle and raced across the field for a 75-yd. touchdown connection and a tie game...
...calls "the geopolitical momentum." That more than anything else will help maintain order in the crescent of crisis...
Whether the Shah retires to St. Moritz or tries to stay on in Iran, there is no question that an era of imperial aspirations has come to an end. As the protests against him spread, gathering momentum with every strike and riot, the Shah's personal power has been completely eroded. Even those in the middle classes who still backed him, partly out of fear of what might follow, knew his cause was lost. His chief support remained high-ranking officers in the military. Several hard-lining generals urged the Shah to stay and pleaded with him for permission...