Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GETTYSBURG, Pa., Nov. 29--The comeback trail from a minor stroke brought President Eisenhower back once more today to the serenity of a brick and stone home amid the rolling acres of this country estate...
Wilson has only two starters and half the ten-man squad back, but among them are the two key players who led the remarkable late season comeback--Dick Woolston and George Harrington. They combined to infuse the team with new vitality and aggressiveness to snap a six-game losing streak and begin a drive which came within a few seconds of downing league champion Yale in the season's finale...
...Dangerous & Insane." The London concerts marked the peak of a remarkable comeback in a notable-and notably erratic-career. In 1932, a year before
Despite a strong fourth-quarter Crimson comeback effort, Yale's freshman soccer team managed to eke out a 3-2 victory over a determined Yardling squad...
Nearly every U.S. record for top painters fell. By the time the evening was out, old collectors had staged a comeback, and newcomers had made their bid for fame. Among the most significant sales: ¶ Actor Edward G. Robinson, who last February had parted with a fortune in paintings to complete a divorce settlement, was on the telephone from Montreal (where he is touring in The Middle of the Night), picked up Derain's Vase of Flowers for $5,500, Georges Braque's The Sausage for $12,000. ¶ Mrs. David Rockefeller went $11,000 over estimates...