Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With the momentum gained from last weekend's upset, the Bruins should provide the fans with a hard-fought contest. "They'll probably beat you," Cook said. "They always catch you at the right time--between Princeton and Yale...
...momentum just turned around in that fourth quarter," O'Neill said yesterday. "There was really no decision on the last conversion play. We had to go for the victory. We played so much better than against Dartmouth (a 33-6 loss). And this Princeton team was the toughest we've faced all year...
...indeed failed his obligation under the Constitution to uphold the law. Whether two-thirds of the Senate would vote to convict him cannot be certain. But even if he were to be acquitted, the process would leave him and the country devastated. Events have achieved an alarming momentum; additional facts that would be brought out under subpoena power at an impeachment trial could strike in many unforeseen and dangerous directions...
...Parti Québécois has been led by René Lévesque, 51, a brilliant journalist who left the Liberals because of their strong support of federalism. Although the péquistes enlisted an impressive array of French-Canadian intellectuals as assembly candidates, the momentum of the campaign gradually swung to the Liberals, whose slogan, Bourassa construit (Bourassa builds), was a not too veiled hint that Lévesque destroys...
Harvard is not ranked currently in the New England soccer poll, after its disappointing loss to Tufts last Wednesday. Princeton is playing with the momentum of an easy 5-1 win against Jacksonville...