Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have three tough weekends ahead of us," senior center Rob Ohno says. "And I think [the Northeastern win] might give us momentum for the next couple games...
Like a hurricane born in the Caribbean and gathering momentum as it pushes northward, word spread last week that Jean-Claude Duvalier, 34, Haiti's President-for-Life, had fled his country. The reports said that Duvalier, who is known as "Baby Doc," and members of his family had gone into exile rather than face vengeance at the hands of a burgeoning populist movement against him. On Friday, in response to growing unrest throughout Haiti, Duvalier imposed a state of siege. Hours later White House Spokesman Larry Speakes made the dramatic announcement to reporters traveling with President Reagan aboard...
Though Harvard now carried the momentum and Crimson netminder Grant Blair was in good form, a string of penalties allowed Princeton repeated opportunities to get back into the game...
...open the second period, the Tigers replaced Shea with Dave Marotta in the net and immediately capitalized on their momentum, knotting the game at two when Dan Titus intercepted Crimson defenseman Butch Cutone's pass at the Harvard blue line and flicked a high wrist shot past Blair...
...says that she would, if elected, call for an immediate six- month cease-fire in order to open negotiations with the guerrillas. She would also offer a pardon to any political prisoner willing to renounce the use of force. Aquino believes that the insurgency will lose much of its momentum once Marcos leaves office. But she insists that she will use force to fight any group that seeks to overthrow a genuinely democratic government or "destroy our cultural heritage, including our belief in God." Early in her campaign Aquino gave Marcos a target of opportunity when she said that...