Word: momentum
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...committee. "Can I see how many people in this room I told that this was going to be easy?" he asked. "If anybody signed up thinking it was going to be easy, then I didn't make myself clear." A win in Iowa, Obama promised, would give him the momentum he needed to win across the map - but his backers wouldn't see much evidence of progress before then. "We're up against the most formidable team in 25 years," he said. "But we've got a plan, and we've got to have faith...
...cause you to pull your hair out if you don’t have the leadership.”But the freshman class of Chenoweth, Jessica Fronk, and Dina Emde, to name a few, added its fair share to Harvard’s success. Richardson and Olson carried their momentum from cross country through the indoor and outdoor seasons.The outdoor Heps were highlighted by Olson’s anchoring of the 4x800-meter relay team, during which she overtook the Cornell runner in the home stretch to give the relay squad the gold medal with a time of 8:56.70.In...
...Columbia squads, both the men and women fell to the Lions as well as Penn, while the women also dropped a close 14-13 contest to Brown. Each team finished third in the Ancient Eight. “The break in the middle really took away some of our momentum,” co-captain Samantha Parker said. “It was hard to come back and just start fencing again after intersession...It was hard to do that when we didn’t have as strong a team as we did in years past...
...when it faced conference opponent Penn, notching a 6-3 victory and upping its league record to 4-0. After the squad’s undefeated streak in its Ivy matchups, the Crimson hoped to be in contention to win the league title. But Harvard failed to maintain its momentum and fell in its last two league games. Princeton gave the Crimson its first conference defeat, sweeping the squad, 9-0, and knocking Harvard out of the running for the title. The Crimson met Yale three days later to battle it out for the second-place spot in the Ancient...
...nation in pass efficiency defense, wilted under the steady assault of senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti and his receivers. On the game’s opening drive, Pizzotti hit sophomore Matt Luft for a 40-yard touchdown strike that gave the Crimson a 7-0 lead and instant momentum just 1:08 into the contest...