Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warnings that Salt Lake City would shrivel under the leadership of a man behind the times, the voters sized up Maverick Lee's established reputation for honesty and economy, ignored labor's support of Jenkins, gave Lee a plurality of 6,000 votes. Lee's comeback impressed even anti-Lee Republicans enough to welcome him back into the fold, thus paved the way for "Brack" to look ahead once again either to the Governor's chair or 1962's Senate race...
Last fall, a Crimson comeback led by quarterback Charlie Ravenel nearly produced a tie against a powerful Princeton eleven, but Ravenel fell one yard short on his conversion attempt...
...Boston, John E. Powers, president of the state Senate, is favored to defeat his rival, John F. Collins, for the mayoralty Incumbent Democrat Richardson Dilworth, Mayor of Philadelphia, is expected to soundly defeated Harold E. Stassen, who is trying a political comeback...
After a desultory early-season performance, Fitzgerald came into his own in two fine races against Ernest Tracy of Penn and Tom Laris of Dartmouth. The entire squad was beginning to rally around his inspirational performances. So complete was his comeback that he would have been the favorite today...
...varsity on the other hand, had experienced some rough going. Having staggered through victories over B.U., Middlebury, Holy Cross, Indiana, and Georgia, it had created a reputation for playing in cliff-hangers. And the week before the Centre encounter, the varsity had needed an eleventh-hour comeback to tie a good but not great Penn State eleven...