Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last Saturday a relay again proved to be the decisive edge in the Harvard-Springfield showdown, as the winning Springfield 880-yard relay missed its final baton connection in the opening track event and allowed the Harvard team to speed by to a 1:47.9 victory and gain the momentum that carried it to a 69-36 victory...
Harvard didn't get its momentum back until the middle of the third period, when Scott Fusco's second goal of the night awoke the icemen from their somnolence and cut the B.C. lead...
...Year for 1980, Ronald Reagan launched a conservative counterrevolution, changing the direction of American government more drastically than any other President in half a century. Not even the bullet from a would-be assassin's gun that pierced his left lung on March 30 could slow his initial momentum...
With the publication of P.T. Barnum's autobiography in 1855, says Lindberg, the con man in America went public. The rush to grab land, swindle immigrants and kite stock gathered momentum. As a great showman, Barnum hoodwinked the suckers and made them like it. Who could hate a man able to move crowds by changing the exit sign to one that read, "This way to the Grand Egress." His book ratified cynicism as entertainment, if not instruction...
...Vermont's momentum again did not last for long. The Crimson team reasserted itself with junior forward Franese Hall dominating play on the court for the remainder of the half. Hall, in this stretch, controlled the boards and scored three skillful two-pointers, hitting from underneath the hoop and from long range...