Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yardlings opened the scoring with a Paul Sharon run but trailed, 12-7, as the half approached. The squad regained the momentum when kicking specialist Jim Villanueva unloaded a spectacular 47-yd. field goal with two minutes left. Gary De Jesus then gave the Crimson a 17-12 halftime lead by taking a loose ball into the endzone after Mike Dixon had blocked a Holy Cross punt...
More than perhaps any other sport, momentum controls field hockey. Harvard had the momentum entering the second half, and almost doubled its margin two minutes into the stanza when Pew clanged a low liner off the post from eight feet...
...coach Edie MacAusland's credit, her team did not collapse in the waning moments, but continued to press the UNH midfield. The Wildcats played like the region's best when the going got tough, however, keeping the momentum to run out the clock...
...contest moved up the East Coast towards the major urban centers of the Northeast, Reagan's momentum held; except for a narrow Democratic victory in Massachusetts, the Republican captured most of the country's older industrial centers, including surprise wins in Connecticut and New York...
...first will be remembered for Reagan's assertion that "I paid for this microphone," a declaration observers said helped him to an overwhelming victory in the Granite State primary and that squelched the momentum of the GOP challenger and now vice president-elect George Bush...