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Word: comebacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cagers, who held a 31-23 halftime lead, upped the margin to a gaping 16 with 11:44 left to play. Cornell then mounted a steady comeback and sliced the difference to one (59-58) with 3:11 remaining...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Hoopsters Defeat Cornell; Snap Twelve-Game String | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

Harvard captain John Havens disposed of second-ranked midshipman John Wall 3-1 despite dropping the opening game of the battle. The Crimson's Mitch Reese also staged a comeback in the third spot, edging Dave Maceslin 3-2 after being down two games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Submarine Middies, 9-0 | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...Green soon jumped back into the game with 11 straight points. Freshman center Gail Koziara sparked the comeback with her ambitious play under the boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Cagers Drub Dartmouth, 80-65 | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

When Dartmouth threw three left-handers at the Crimson women in the team's only January meet. Harvard stumbled a bit at the start. But a comeback victory by captain Kathy Lowry and a strong showing by junior Jenny Laforet turned the tide on the Hanover lancers and upped the Harvard record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquamen Head Up Foursome Of Squads Still Undefeated | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

DIED. Marjorie Lawrence, 71, Australian-born soprano who resumed her career in a wheelchair after being stricken by infantile paralysis in 1941; of a heart attack; in Little Rock, Ark. Lawrence specialized in Wagnerian roles and after her illness made a triumphant comeback at the Metropolitan Opera in 1943 singing Venus in Tannhauser while seated on a divan. She detailed her struggles with illness in her 1949 autobiography, Interrupted Melody, and in subsequent years taught opera at several U.S. colleges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 29, 1979 | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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