Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the score at 2-1, a second half comeback seemed within reach. Grassby was not about to wait for the second half, however. With 48 seconds remaining in the period, he lined a shot into the goal after Acorn headed Geoff Hargadon's direct kick...
While Cincy's hitting and fielding are somewhat appreciated by the Eastern press, the Reds pitching is highly underrated. Don Gullet is second to none in the NL, and he does not balk. Gary Nolan, who has made the comeback of the year, possesses one of the most baffling change ups in baseball, a change-up which allowed Nolan to strike out 15 straight Boston Red Sox batters in a 1968 exhibition game...
...decide by secret ballot which union should represent them. By week's end the U.F.W. had won 24 elections, the Teamsters 14. Which union would win the most remained in doubt-the series of elections will run well into next year-but Chavez appeared to be staging a comeback...
Proved Protection. Whatever the cause-parental overconfidence, carelessness or ignorance-the situation may well lead to a comeback by diseases that had been almost conquered. In the 20 years since polio vaccines became available, the number of U.S. cases of that crippling and often fatal disease has fallen from a peak of 58,000 in 1952 to a mere seven in 1974. Common or "red" measles (rubeola) used to strike 4 million children a year, kill 400 and leave 800 with irreparable brain damage. By last year, the total number of cases was down to 22,000; only a handful...
...aromatic uses-has grown so fast in recent years that the demand for herb plants and seeds has wafted to every corner of the country. Dried and fresh herbs, used for millenniums in teas, elixirs, salves and perfumes to spice food and please the nostril, are enjoying a luxuriant comeback in city stores and country herb farms. Then too there are tens of thousands of private herb gardens...