Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coach called John Calliff "the man of the match." and stressed the leadership displayed by captain Leo Lanzillo. He remarked that "this is the second game in a row that every player on the field has had a good game. The momentum strong to an early and even though we didn't score, we showed some good flashes. We were definitely the fitter team...
...shares had been purchased against constantly rising quotations. Other buyers bought other pivotal stocks. In an hour General Electric was up 21 points, Montgomery Ward up 23, Radio up 16, A. T. & T. up 22. How far the market would have gone downward on its unchecked momentum is difficult to say. But brokers and traders alike agreed that the man who bid 205 for 25,000 shares of Steel had made himself a hero of a financially historic moment...
...managed to space his crucial plays, bad and good, so as to leave the momentum with Harvard when it counted. The plays separated the game's three chapters--the first, which Harvard won, 14-0, the second, which Army owned by a 21-0 count, and the last, in which the Crimson sored the final 10 points...
...become a nightmare for the Crimson. After Harvard jumped out to a 14-0 lead, Army worked its way back into the ballgame. A touchdown midway through the second quarter and two quick scores early in the third brought the Cadets a 21-14 lead and a monopoly on momentum...
...Harvard should not use Morse's presence as an excuse for postponing a decision on a new police chief. The department cannot run on momentum forever, and members of the search committee Steiner put together to consider possible replacements said recently that very little substantive work has been done...