Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comeback for women's colleges? Keenly aware that feminism has sparked a new career-consciousness in women, many of the colleges are shaking up their traditionally liberal arts-oriented curriculums. At Mills College in Oakland, Calif., students can sign up for a special program that trains them for managerial positions in business or public service jobs. The College of St. Theresa in Winona, Minn., offers this fall a new major in law enforcement. Students will study penology as well as criminal law and the courts. At Hood College in Frederick, Md., the home economics department now offers consumer-affairs...
...game pitted the college graduates against last year's Super Bowl champs, the Pittsburgh Steelers. The future pros led after the first half, 14.7, until Pittsburgh made its expected comeback and won the game...
...sinkful of dirty plates and ten pounds of bird food on the two men, who are wrestling on the floor, ignoring her until she screams, "I'm going to give it all away! To charity!" Nicky's rejoinder--"Let's not go off half-cocked, now." Her snappy comeback--"The scales have fallen from my eyes! I don't care to be the butt of your amusement." The script seems just badly written until one listens critically and realizes that every line could have been lifted from a Late Show rerun. The lines are as carefully strung together...
...pithy sayings ("The business of America is business") are served up as wisdom for this time. Around July 4, television and newspaper commentators noted rather affectionately that it was Cal's birthday (1872) and we might well take a lesson from his penny-pinching. That is quite a comeback for a man whose previous pinnacle of acclaim came when Writer Dorothy Parker, on being told he was dead, asked: "How can they tell...
Breaking Connors' serve five times, Ashe glided through the first two sets, then ran into trouble in the third as Connors appeared to regain his previously invincible form. In the fourth set, the Connors comeback continued, as he took a 3-0 lead. But Ashe fought back to break Connors' serve twice more for set, match and title...