Word: comeback
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...Everyone that came in played their heart out tonight,” said Lin. “Whether that meant getting boards or grabbing loose balls, we decided to lock down and that’s what started our comeback...
...Crimson’s comeback was still alive and well, while Janning’s ego remained most definitely bruised...
...chosen retired General Eric Shinseki, who voiced the first, lone dissent of the Bush Administration's cut-rate plan for the Iraq war, to head the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The move shows Obama's deep concern for the needs of wounded veterans. More poignantly, it marks a comeback for an Army officer who was spurned by his superiors, then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, for warning that the war's post-invasion phase would require many more troops than the Pentagon believed...
...This futurist lived long enough to serenely contemplate his own future, or lack of it. "It would be nice to look forward to going to a Great Sci-Fi Convention in the Sky when I expire," he wrote. "I am vaguely contemplating opting for a cryogenic comeback but in case I don't become a human people-cicle, I, like Isaac Asimov and other thinkers I admire, don't expect to wake up in some spirit realm of an afterlife. I've been a secular humanist since I was 15, long before the term was invented, and nothing since...
...When trying to make a comeback] things have to go really well for you and poorly for them to make up for that differential,” Amaker said. “We were doing that, but it’s hard to keep that up. You give them a lot of credit. They stopped our runs and made some big shots to get their confidence and rhythm back...