Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some stellar play all around," Co-Captain Manda Schossberger said. "Beating Yale was amazing. Everybody played well. This should give us some momentum heading into the Princeton and Penn weekend...
...offsides threw us, breaking up our offensive momentum," McAnaney said." We were happy with our performance, although the outcome was disappointing...
...momentum is with us," boasts Father Ed Roden, a key organizer. "The people rose up; they're getting action." Change never comes nicely, Alinsky's disciples preach. Nor fast. Sister will be content if a few hundred water hookups can be made by year's end. That will be a signal the colonias are on the road to controlling their own destiny...
...above all, Delacroix and Ingres -- had died, and no one seemed fit to replace them. French critics and artists alike, and conservative ones in particular, felt a tremor of crisis, & as others would a century later as the masters of modernism died off. After them, what could sustain the momentum of culture...
Botha's problem is how to maintain this fall's diplomatic momentum. He has skillfully orchestrated his parade into those African countries that are particularly vulnerable to South African pressure and blandishments. But he has yet to persuade the leaders of the key front-line states that his journeys offer more than cosmetic change. If anything, Pretoria's state of emergency is more repressive to antiapartheid forces now than it was two years ago. Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, a voluble foe of "the Boers," said stiffly, "I don't know who else Botha will meet. I have no appointment with...