Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manhattan that message was apparently heard. A similar resolution, demanding Israel's ejection from the 157-member U.N. General Assembly, was losing momentum. Libyan Ambassador to the U.N. Ali Treiki announced on Friday that a 20-member Arab bloc would cease, for the moment at least, to press for Israel's ostracism...
Brown had none of the same problems. In the opening 10 minutes, the Bruins dominated a Harvard squad that looked tentative after a one-week break between matches. And Providence's finest coasted on this early momentum until the halftime whistle...
...plot all serve as physical manifestations of the play's theme of oppression. It's an unusual opportunity to be able to witness such a dense dramatic experience in which the actors must be propelled by a continuous energy supply. They are never given an opportunity to lose their momentum as the complex plot unfolds...
...show opens with a promisingly fast-paced multiple-telegram scene, but it proceeds to lose its momentum in over-long songs and explanatory dialogue. The second act, however, picks up the pace immensely (though not unflaggingly) as the actors begin to play more with their roles, apparently including some improvising, judging from the glee registered in the orchestra...
...votes to be endorsed by the U.S. House of Representatives. But the excitement of those heady days is fading, and recent freeze rallies in Arkansas, Iowa, Tennessee and Washington, D.C., have been disappointing. Asks David McCauley of the American Friends Service Committee in Vermont: "How do we keep the momentum...