Word: momentum
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...Harvard is back at full strength. On that last power play, the Crimson looked more threatening than the Big Red. Let's see what Harvard can do with the momentum...
After a win at Dartmouth on Jan. 26 broke the Crimson’s negative momentum, Harvard knocked off No. 14 Northeastern to reach the Beanpot final for the first time since 1998. While seventh-ranked Boston College would not allow the Crimson to take its first Beanpot title in 15 years, Harvard battled the Eagles down to the wire, falling only in overtime...
...meticulousness that haunts the rest of his stories, without quite managing to be fully polished into brilliance.The first chapter, entitled “Vanishing Acts,” deals in disappearances under some form or another. Odd and mysterious women spiral towards their disappearance with inevitable momentum as a whimsical voice looks back onto the summers of his adolescence. Clara Schuler, a shy and standoffish teenage girl, gains short-lived popularity in the eponymous “Dangerous Laughter.” She is gifted at hysterical laughter, a talent appreciated by her bored and entertainment-seeking classmates...
...Cardinal Bertone's book helps make clear, the announcement served several purposes. The double beatification and the publication of the third secret endorsed the kind of potent popular piety inspired by Marian apparitions, a trend in popular Catholicism that had gained momentum in the 20th century. But the Vatican response also reined in the flip-side of such enthusiasm: unfettered religious hysteria that can occur when white-hot supernaturalism seems to rupture the staid rhythms of modern institutional religious life...
...seven years in the Senate and two terms as First Lady, saying "I am ready to lead on Day One." And the message has gotten through: by clear margins, voters rate her as the more experienced of the two candidates. The fact that this hasn't stopped Obama's momentum doesn't mean he's heard the last of it - not with John McCain, who has spent 26 years on Capitol Hill, the likely Republican nominee. "I'm not the youngest candidate. But I am the most experienced," says McCain. "I know how the world works...