Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trend coincides with a current journalistic emphasis, even in the respectables, on what is interesting, against what is important. (The important may make a comeback in news interest but at the moment lacks either the urgency of danger or the stimulus of hope.) Recognizing this shift, politicians constantly conduct polls about their image and resist too much identity with substance. So watch Jerry Brown proving how zealous he is at implementing the Proposition 13 he fought. Note Jimmy Carter, falling in the ratings but still registering high for likability...
...soon, and the Sox will bust out of their slumber one of these nights, probably against the White Sox tonight at Fenway. They'd better be hot when they leave here for two games in Yankee Stadium later this week that have to be called crucial to the Yankee comeback plans...
...smell about the party elsewhere." With that retort the Prime Minister triggered a crisis in his 16-month-old government that led to the resignation of two Cabinet ministers, fractured the fragile unity of the ruling Janata Party and-unwittingly-cleared the way for a possible political comeback by his predecessor, Indira Gandhi...
...bewildering philosophy of a man rather remarkably frozen solid to the 1952 Republican platform. Even more bewildering, however, is that he has been able to mask this atavistic outlook with a "new look" of feigned humility, and has successfully cast himself as the tenacious underdog making yet another comeback. It just isn't fair...
...four years the prices that he collects have buckled like a sick calf, while the costs of everything he buys-gasoline, fertilizer, tetracycline for ailing heifers, tractors from Peoria and bull semen from France-have climbed like corn in August. And just when he had started to make a comeback, a politically motivated peanut farmer from Georgia cut him off at the knees by letting in a lot of imports...