Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas grasped the bar. He swung around once, twice, building speed and momentum for a spread-legged somersault over the bar, reaching in mid-air to grab the bar again before swinging into a perfect handstand. For a moment, he was frozen, balanced perfectly upside down. Then he flipped into action again, knifing his inverted body through a double "German" giant swing, arching his back into another handstand, twirling, spinning. Finally, tucking his knees into his chest, Thomas whipped into his dismount: a double somersault with a half-twist on each revolution. If he faltered on landing, took one steadying...
Midway through the second half, Kleinfelder switched to a zone defense after two calls against the Crimson and numerous turnovers threatened to give SMU the momentum...
...from mass starvation continued to gather steam last week. A group of Western nations asked U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to declare the sprawling refugee camps along the Thai border to be internationally supervised "safe havens," protected by the force of world opinion. Private relief efforts were also gathering momentum. On the day after Thanksgiving a DC-8 cargo plane carrying $1.5 million worth of canned meat, baby formula, antibiotics and other supplies landed at Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport. It had been chartered by Operation California, an organization headed by two former antiwar activists, Llewellyn Werner...
...Tigers--on the strength of their freestyle depth--had clawed their way back into contention. The fact that Princeton featured four of the meet's top eight 200-freestylers competing on their relay team seemed to guarantee a win for the Tigers in that event, the momentum from which they hoped would carry them to victory on the third and final...
...other way. After catching the ball at the Harvard 20, he tip-toed up his own sideline for 70 yards until he was dragged down at the Yale 10. Most of the run was called back on a clipping penalty, but Harvard had the ball back--and the momentum...