Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit to the Hotel Management Capital of the Ivies is important in a different way. Lose this one and the Crimson is looking at a three-game winless streak with Dartmouth knocking on the door next weekend. Win it and the squad is 2-0 in the Ivies with momentum on its side. That's important since the bulk of the Ivy schedule (four consecutive league games) begins this week...
...contest was marked by surges by both teams, with momentum changing hands at the tip of the net. The outcome boiled down to the net. The outcome boiled down to the inexperience of a Harvard team that just this year acquired varsity status...
...have to convince Congress that the budget momentum has been stunned but not stopped. We will be saying that a vote against spending cuts is a vote for high interest rates, and all the turmoil and trouble that high interest rates entail...
...spite of the anemic passing game, a long aerial gainer marked the final shift in momentum of a see-saw contest. Late in the third quarter, with the score 13-13 and Army in a third-and-14 situation, Allem dropped back to pass...
...Hearns took another terrible beating in the next round, he returned for the eighth not merely a survivor but a boxer. Now the roles were reversed: Hearns was dancing, trying to stay out of Leonard's reach, while the smaller man turned stalker. Slowly, however, Hearns regained his momentum and once again started to carry the judges' cards. At the same time, enmity turned to respect: when the bell rang, the two men no longer tossed late punches and insults but instead saluted each other's courage and skill, tapping gloves fraternally...