Word: comeback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maryland, Democrat Millard E. Tydings, 66, began a comeback by edging out George P. Mahoney in the closest senatorial primary in Maryland history. He will face John Marshall Butler, who in 1950 knocked Tydings out of the Senate seat he had held for 24 years...
...contrast, dollar-earners have recently suffered a setback. Freed to find its own rate (TIME, April 23), the peso is hovering around 480 to the dollar; the free market has wiped out an earlier, limited trading in scarce "tourist dollars" at more than 600. The peso's comeback, plus last year's inflation (now checked), has pushed the price of a bottle of gran vino, for example, from 25? to $1 for dollar earners. Brazil's cruzeiro has been slipping steadily on the limited free market, but local price inflation has kept step, and only the country...
...crystal-clear that Boom Boom Khrushchev vanquished Peep Peep Malenkov in the preliminaries for the fumbling championship of the U.S.S.R. Now, the tag team of Bim & Bom is in training for the finals. Naturally, the British, being the jolly sporting type, are rooting for the underdog to make a comeback...
...when he landed, his opponent usually dropped. Rocky never really bothered to learn how to box; he never really had to. Without losing a fight, he battered his way up through the heavyweight ranks. It took him only eight rounds to dispose of Joe Louis and ruin the comeback of that puffy remnant of a great champ. Later, he won the title by flattening Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott in the 13th round, after being knocked down in the third for the first time in his professional life. In a return bout, it took him only one round to stop Jersey...
BLACK AUTOS are making a comeback. After slipping to 12% of the market in August of 1954, black and charcoal grey shot up to 20% of all new-car paint jobs turned out last January...