Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rugged southern countryside. Whole villages were obliterated. Uncounted thousands were buried in the wreckage of their homes, churches and cafes. Delayed by impassable roads, bad weather and bureaucratic ineptitude, rescue workers took 48 hours or more to reach the most isolated hamlets. Finally the digging-out gathered momentum, unearthing the battered corpses with sickening regularity. By week's end the official death toll stood at nearly 3,000-a fraction, it was feared, of the actual total. More frightening still was the realization that a dread dimension of human failure had been added to an accident of nature: many...
...momentum is so important to this team. The squad showed it with a come-from-behind spurt win at Brown, solidified the claim with three quick ones to tie Northeastern, and proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt when that 5-5 tie with the Huskies became, in the time it takes to buy a hot dog, an 11-5 disaster...
...when Rob Burns took a Shayne Kukulowicz pass and beat Colgate's Terry McSweeney for a power-play marker with just over a minute remaining in the second period, the momentum--which had sustained the Red Raiders through six straight minutes of penalty killing (including almost four minutes down two men), began imperceptibly to slip toward the visitors' bench...
...Corrigan fought back to take the next two games, 15-10 and 15-13. In the fifth and deciding game, Corrigan tired, and the momentum shifted once again. Myers emerged victorious...
...Crimson regained some momentum with a pair of shots in RPI's netminder Gerry Fink, but Larry Landon and Michael Deschenes worked a two-on-one to perfection at 16:19, sending Harvard to the dressing room down...