Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come home again, after persistent knee problems aborted his comeback attempt with the Black Hawks this season and ended his glorious career much too early for himself and for the 14,654 who stood and cheered and screamed for a long, loud time while his former teammates banged their sticks in appreciation. The top brass--Harry Sinden, general manager of the Bruins. Schmidt, whose #15 was retired in 1955, Clarence Campbell, president of the NHL from 1946 to 1977, John Ziegler, his successor, Alan "Eaglebird" Eagleson, head of the NHL Players Association, and Ed King, whose current title I have...
...died in the marketplace within two months. Audiences also wisely avoided Sylvester Stallone's F.I.S.T., a tedious fictionalization of the life of Jimmy Hoffa, and were almost as wary of Paradise Alley, Stallone's futile attempt to re-create sweaty 1940s realism. Convoy, Ali MacGraw's comeback vehicle, did not get rolling, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which had all the energy of a wilting lily, never managed to strike up a tune...
Coach John Harvey, pleased with his team's performance, said the victory "shows a mark of character. We lost the lead from the first half, but still fought off their comeback...
Last night, in the considerably smaller playpen of the IAB, Wagner's infant basketball program threw away its swaddling clothes. The Seahawks defeated Harvard 82-73, outscoring the Crimson 44-29 in a second half comeback...
...Crimson rained shots on Wildcat netminder Greg Moffett in the first two frames, and displayed practical knowledge and application of passing, forechecking, and shot deflection while making the notion of a third-period comeback obsolete...