Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What we seek is a public active enough in the dialogue about nuclear war that they will feel compelled to work with the Government in coming up with solutions, whether it be disarmament, a freeze or some other option. The ball is rolling, and we want to give it momentum...
...Aubuisson launched ARENA last spring. He talks about altering the junta's land reform and exterminating the Communists. By that he sometimes seems to mean anything from a Christian Democrat to a Marxist guerrilla. Aided by slick electioneering techniques, D'Aubuisson's party picked up momentum last month and emerged as the main challenger to Duarte's Christian Democrats. The candidate who has been so closely associated with violence was himself the victim of an assassination attempt in February. Sometimes D'Aubuisson will take off his shirt to show reporters evidence of the wound...
...vote last week was not the first time that anti-abortion legislation has been proposed in Congress, but, whether or not it succeeds this time, the right-to-life movement is gaining momentum. In testimony to a House subcommittee in February 1981, Dr. Mary Jane Gray, representing the National Women's Health Network, recalled that during her residency in New York City in the 1950's "hardly a night passed without my being summoned to the emergency room to treat a hemorrhaging woman with an incomplete or infected abortion, the result of illegal abortions clumsily performed under miserable circumstances...
...they had won neither on the battlefield nor at the ballot box. Negotiations would vindicate guerrilla warfare by abandoning the principle that an insurgency should not be allowed to force a government to the bargaining table by means of violence. The talks would also be bound to increase the momentum for an eventual leftist triumph...
...security forces. But he faces a tough challenge from ultrarightist candidates in the six-party contest. Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former Salvadoran national guard intelligence officer and a fierce extremist, has been campaigning aggressively on an unleash-the-army-and-crush-the-Communists platform, and has been gaining momentum. A victory by a coalition of D'Aubuisson's National Republican Alliance with the conservative National Reconciliation Party, the traditional vehicle of the oligarchy, would be a disaster for Washington's policy, which is aimed at shoring up the moderate center while providing military aid to fend off a mounting...