Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although stock prices remain stuck a bit below 1,000 on the Dow Jones industrial average, most Wall Streeters still think it is only a matter of time before the barrier crumbles and the U.S. economy continues its comeback. In back-and-forth trading last week the Dow average closed at 972.92, about even with the previous week's close. Simultaneously, however, the nation got some of the best news yet about prices and jobs. The wholesale price index in February dropped .5%; it was the fourth straight month in which that key indicator has either held steady...
There were still 53 seconds remaining in the game but one just knew that a stunned Boston College squad could not mount one more comeback as both teams had been doing all night...
Died. Florence Ballard, 32, silky-voiced background singer of the original Supremes who recorded on eight of their gold records before she was dropped from the group in 1967; of a heart attack; in Detroit. Ballard fizzled when she tried a comeback as a single act in 1968, suffered a series of nervous breakdowns and spent most of her final years in pauperism. Looking back regretfully, she once said, "It was like being on a fast-moving train that suddenly stopped...
Despite the frigid second half, which has typified most of the season for the squad, Coach Satch Sanders seemed pleased with the team's play, and particularly the final comeback...
...overtime, Yale was able to dominate the freshmen, who had been wearied by their comeback efforts. The Elis outscored Harvard in this stretch...