Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thinclad was making a characteristically strong move on the final lap when he was jostled at the last turn and couldn't regain the momentum, leaving the race to DeRienzo...
...contest in Massachusetts, a liberal state where Reagan appeared to have limited support. And Reagan put his whole future campaign into question by dismissing, several hours before the polls closed on election night in New Hampshire, his controversial campaign manager, John Sears. Still, for the immediate future, both momentum and the calendar favor Reagan. The early March contests are in the Dixie states of South Carolina (March 8), Georgia, Alabama and Florida (all March 11). This is conservative country, where Reagan is strong. The next major confrontation will come in the Illinois primary on March 18, the first...
...glorious and innocent weeks between Iowa and New Hampshire, Bush bragged incessantly in his Ivy League-cheerleader tones of having "the Big Mo" (momentum). But he did only well enough to maintain his new status as No. 2 going into the Southern round. Gamely and accurately, Bush summed up his New Hampshire debacle...
...victory, coupled with Carter's recent United Nations gaffe, gives the flagging Kennedy campaign effort a little new hope and some momentum that will be put on the line Tuesday in Florida and later in Illinois...
...that as it may, there is no doubt that his fearsome reputation as a demonic troublemaker on the set gathered momentum during the years after his brush with death. (He has a pacemaker, and his anxiety about his health increased understandably last year after his latest heart attack.) What tends to happen on location with Sellers is that the star grows increasingly insecure as filming approaches and during the early days of the shoot. Then, if he does not find his character, or if he senses a lack of support?and he requires monumental amounts of ego boosting?writers, directors...