Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once Harvard got the lead, the momentum never shifted back to RPI's side. The Crimson began checking with the authority it had in the opening period of the first game, and soon all the lines were playing more effectively. Greg Chalmers tallied once midway through the third period, and the Fusco brothers combined for Harvard's fourth and final goal with less than five minutes left...
...debacle. Conservative Candidate Robert Hughes, 31, received only 5.5% of the vote in Bermondsey. More important, Simon Hughes' stunning victory last week suggested that the Social Democratic/Liberal alliance, which poses a greater threat than a Labor Party veering too far to the left, may be regaining momentum. Since last summer, Thatcher, 56, has been basking in the glow of Britain's victory over Argentina in the Falklands war. In addition, she has benefited from some long-awaited improvements in the economy, and recent polls show her holding a lead of anywhere from 11% to 21% over Labor...
...highly autobiographical The Glass Menagerie, Williams tenderly exorcised the painful burden of his family history. When the play opened on Broadway in 1945, it galvanized a theater that had exhausted its creative momentum. Onto this becalmed stage, Williams brought a kind of drama that reflected an entire generation's failure of nerve, and touched the exposed nerve ends...
Though the Crimson did not fight back right away, gradually its strong defensive effort inside began to change the momentum of the game. When Scannell scurried inside on a quick driving layup, and drew a foul, she went to the line for two charity points to break a 46-all tie, and the Crimson surged ahead three minutes into the second half...
...agree: war is an existential hell to which some pretty fine people had been unfairly assigned; now they were doing their best to do good and get out. As the Viet Nam War staggered to a close and M*A*S*H generated the momentum any TV series needs to sustain its quality after the first few seasons, the show revealed itself as a gritty romance about the finest American instincts. Here were gruff pragmatism, technical ingenuity, grace under pressure, the saving perspective of wit. The men and women of 4077 MASH could be seen as us at our worst...