Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that if Clark can maintain the momentum he generated in the past week, "his chances of beating Javits are good...
...people, the real Greeks, have shown a unique, a quite extraordinary maturity. It's thanks to them and this new-found maturity that I have managed, painlessly and without bloodshed, to open the road to democracy within three months. It is going to be necessary to sustain the momentum over the next four years in order to lay the real foundations for a healthy and responsible democracy. Do you realize that the coming elections are the first this country has had in ten years? If I secure a sufficient majority, I will be able to succeed in giving Greece...
...Karen Linsley broke the ice for Radcliffe with a beautiful flick at the beginning of the second half. "In the first half our girls had good speed," O'Connor said, "but after two Wheaton girls collided on the field and play was stopped, the Wheaton team came back with momentum...
They were omens of larger troubles ahead: it is an unmistakable fact that the mood on both sides in the Middle East imbroglio has shifted noticeably since Kissinger negotiated disengagement in the Sinai and on the Golan Heights earlier this year. The momentum for peaceful settlement has somehow ground to a halt. The belief-or hope-that "Dr. Henry" could work miracles has to a large extent vanished...
Growth is built into the very fabric of a presidential museum; guaranteed long-term public financing, favored access to new display materials, and bureaucratic responsiveness to the public forestall any loss of momentum and appeal. Associated with this primary growth is the continuing secondary development pattern on the periphery of the sites themselves. This commercial activity is an inevitable response to visitors' needs and public taste...