Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even while suffering presidential defeat, the Republican Party displayed an extraordinary capacity for comeback. Only last August political obituary writers were busily anticipating the G.O.P.'s demise as an effective part of the nation's elective system. In the wake of Watergate and the divisive struggle between Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, surveys showed that a paltry 22% of voting-age citizens were willing to identify themselves as Republicans. Ford's Silky Sullivan stretch run changed the equations even though it resulted not so much from his own strength as from Carter's weakness...
Among once familiar House names who were attempting a comeback was Long Island Democrat Allard Lowenstein, 47. He led the "Dump Johnson" movement in protest against the Viet Nam War in 1968 but lost his seat in 1970?and has been losing ever since. He was defeated by the same man who beat him in 1974: Republican John Wydler, 52, who described Lowenstein as "an ultralibeal, a constant loser and a notorious carpetbagger." Another comeback effort fell short in North Carolina, where former National League Pitcher Wilmer ("Vinegar Bend") Mizell, 45, a Republican Congressman from 1968 to 1974, was defeated...
...still hard to predict with certainty the outcome of tomorrow's election. Moynihan, who began the campaign with an estimated 13 percentage point advantage over his incumbent opponent, has watched his lead shrink to a mere four to six points though the most recent polls show him making a comeback. Since the polls have a three-point margin of error, the campaign would seem to be a horse race, if not a dead heat...
Dramatic, not really, because it went according to the script--the early Harvard advantage, the letdown, the Princeton comeback, and the big play. It was as if, for the second week running, the Crimson wanted to explode, but just didn't have the energy...
...dramatic 17-10 loss to the defending Ivy League champions from Harvard was the one that got away. In a final five minute flurry that sent the local partisans into a state of frenzy, the Big Green drove to within one foot of pulling off a television script comeback, only to be turned back in the final 52 seconds--a minute that will be long remembered by those who saw the game...