Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year so we had a hard time getting started and developed a winning attitude." Watson said yesterday. However, the captain-elect called himself "pretty optimistic" that next year's squad will produce the first winning record in four seasons. "Most of the better players are returning, and the momentum we developed during the second half of the season should carry over to next year," he noted...
...meter finals, just into the last lap, senior co-captain Mare Chapus was tripped up by Penn's Jeff Hill. Almost as soon as he hit the track, Chapus was on his feet again, but his momentum and his excellent position--"in front of the little guy from Penn," as Chapus put it--were gone...
With President Reagan still settling into the White House and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin girding for an uphill election campaign, Anwar Sadat has been fearful that the peace process might lose so much momentum as to expire altogether. So the Egyptian President has undertaken a one-man campaign to keep the process alive. Two weeks ago, he addressed the European Parliament in Luxembourg, where he solicited Europe's help in persuading both Israelis and Palestinians to accept "mutual and simultaneous recognition." Afterward, he stopped over in Paris for talks with French President Valéry Giscard...
...trampled by the arrival of weary soldiers from the front, still wearing gas masks. Nor is there any support from Gray Veredon's pallid, inert choreography. (Leonide Massine created the original dances.) As Harlequin, Gary Chryst works hard, but his role is never allowed to gain momentum...
Desaulniers, however, proved a study in momentum as he upended Wagner in the second game and continually raised the level of his play in the succeeding games to hold off his opponent and take the last three frames...