Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MacLeod got into the act once on Saturday, but in a big way. His diving comeback catch in the third quarter of a Brown toss away from him, moved the Crimson to the Colgate 13 yard line. Five plays later Connors scored Harvard's final touchdown...
Some generals maintain that Walker made a bad choice. He could have accepted his demotion, with another shot at his fourth star next summer, when other top slots will open. At 53, Walker had plenty of time for a comeback. Instead, he will try for the first time to make a life outside the Army, helped by retirement pay of $38,000 a year, just $15,000 less than his general's pay. "I'm not embittered," he said. "I'm young enough. I can do something else. I'm not going out to pasture...
Reggie Jackson drove in the game's winning run in the eighth with a Reggie Jackson-type home run to straightaway center field. The abortive comeback effort by the Sox in the last two frames may dull the memory of Jackson's clout, but it cannot deny the importance. Reggie Jackson was once again the hero on the type of battlefield where he can be nothing else, when the battle is all or most of the marbles...
...record amount for any magazine's debut. LIFE'S 10?-in. by 13?-in. page size inspired a few agencies to craft ads that are so visually stunning they could pass for the magazine's photo layouts. Indeed, the picture magazine may be making a general comeback. French Publisher Daniel Filipacchi is assembling a sizeable staff to revive Look magazine as a weekly early next year; the German magazine firm Gruner & Jahr will launch a U.S. version of its expensively produced Geo at that time; the publishers of the classy Realites are planning an other assault on the market...
Coach Zewinski praises Hughes's performance under adversity, saying, "George got seasick but he made a big comeback. He was asking where the beer was by the end of the day." Zewinski adds, "I never get seasick so I was stuck with doing the fishing...