Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They won a Division no one cared enough to win, but the Mets played good end-of-the-season baseball, money ball. And they never seemed to know when they were playing over their heads. They beat Cincinnati on pitching, momentum and the fans...
...voice rising in anger, his eyes boring coldly into the face of a defiant witness, Senator Sam Ervin assailed the notion that White House-inspired dirty tricks employed in the 1972 presidential campaign were commonplace practices in U.S. politics. Regaining some of their lost momentum, even while losing full television coverage for the first time, Ervin's Watergate committee hearings hammered home a key point: there was a humorless, malicious quality in many of these covert activities that carried them well beyond the category of mere pranks...
Bruns Grayson--"I've got to take the Mets in six. They have a lot of momentum and Seaver looks sharp. There will probably be a lot of close 1-0, 2-0 games and the Mets are going to take all of them...
After a series of questionable holding penalities, the Crimson rallied in the last quarter to close the Huskies' lead to 8-6. But a referee accused offensive forward Peter Kellogg of punching a Northeastern player and then ejected Kellogg from the game. Harvard's momentum came to a standstill...
Without losing momentum, Breslin swung around a corner to the topic of Spiro Agnew. Interviewed the morning before Agnew resigned, he offered some comic prophecy and analysis...