Word: momentum
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...HOUSE DIVIDEDBut even within the “ins,” the LGBT community seems to be bifurcating between the civil rights activists chiefly concerned with broader world and those who keep their eye trained primarily on Harvard. Before the early 1980s, when gay rights at Harvard gained momentum, a small, all-male, all-white social group called the Gay Students Association (GSA) existed, unrecognized by the College, in relative anonymity because members feared being outed in a climate hostile toward homosexuality. Former GSA president Benjamin H. Schatz ’81 shook up the campus’ major...
...Cinderella story, nor is it ever possible to live up to great early performances; she was eventually beaten by Jordin Sparks, for whom expectations were lower. Melinda Doolittle is an awful lot like Hillary Clinton, the long-assumed eventual winner who flirts dangerously with staleness as an upstart gathers momentum...
...zone, only to see Cornell dump it right back in and resume its attack.While the Big Red seemed as though it might break through at any moment, it was Harvard who would seize the lead on a rebound score from senior Paul Dufault, once again turning the Cornell momentum on its head.“When they have it in the corner [by the Cornell student section], the crowd can be loud, and they can have control of it,” Taylor said of countering the Big Red charge. “We just like to stay patient, stay...
...shows of your life,” Bajwa said of Williams’ performance. “She played a great match and did everything she needed to do both with her strategy and performance and it resulted in a win.” Williams could not ride the momentum in the second round, however, falling to Garuge of Trinity, 3-1. After losing in the second round of the Hollaran Cup, Neo won three matches and reached the finals of the consolation draw before falling to Dartmouth’s Hannah Conant...
...just one of the two big states). But if she can pull it out, she gets what her own advisers describe as a chance to "reboot" her foundering campaign - and six weeks before the next big contest in Pennsylvania, in which she can try to regain the momentum that once made her look unstoppable for the Democratic nomination...