Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston had to have a memorial. A committee was formed. Blacks donated pennies. As the war receded, however, the momentum died. The pennies -$7,511 in all-were invested. In 1883 one of the few surviving committeemen, Edward Atkinson, noted that the pennies had grown to $16,656.21. He and three other Brahmins formed a new committee and commissioned the young Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create a memorial. Saint-Gaudens envisioned a giant equestrian statue. The Shaws objected. They wanted their son portrayed together with his men. Saint-Gaudens designed a relief of the regiment on the march...
That outcome would hardly surprise the bill's supporters. Nor would it necessarily upset them. A negative decision by the court would only increase the frustration of the pro-lifers and build momentum toward a constitutional amendment. Moreover, the Human Life Statute, if passed by Congress, could provoke a number of state bills that will have to go through the long process of court challenges. While the lawyers argued, abortions would be temporarily outlawed in some communities. Says Helms; "This is a necessary step to have some movement on this question prior to the adoption of a constitutional amendment...
Between projects and worried about maintaining their momentum before a possible tour of the United States this summer, the Stones have dumped Sucking in the Seventies into the suburban record shop bins and are waiting for the virtually guaranteed profits. They really don't lose much stature in the process because everyone who cares knows they stopped producing their best stuff sometime during the reign of Richard Nixon. This is the Stones hanging on, older and less tough, but still worth listening to if you once did Charlie Watts on you plastic pencil case...
...Impeach Reagan gains momentum! Heary Ratliff...
...Perkins and the rest of them scrambled and fought and played one hell of a basketball game. On another night, Carolina's shots would have fallen. On another night, Indiana's ballhandling wouldn't have been quite so impeccable, Carolina's defense quite so porous. On another night, the momentum would have belonged to Carolina, and Carolina would have beaten Indiana. On another night, Carolina did beat Indiana, by nine points, but that was in December, that wasn...