Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Established 4½ months ago with a mission to "monitor" prices but no authority to order rollbacks, the council seemed pusillanimous in its first effort of consequence: an unsuccessful attempt to jawbone big price reductions from sugar refiners early in December. But last week the council made a modest comeback. It got U.S. Steel to trim its recent price increases and pledge publicly to do its best to impose no new ones for at least six months...
Michigan Tech defeated Yale, 7-3, in the other semifinal contest, and then edged Michigan, 3-2, to win the tournament. The Wolverines, after rallying to nip Harvard the previous night, fell prey to a Tech comeback, blowing a 2-0 lead in the final five minutes of play...
...issued by the Peters Cartridge Co., now a division of Remington, perhaps because of the current fascination with the entire decade of the '30s. For instance, art deco will again be all the rage in 1975, just as it was in 1930, and escapist movies are making a comeback. So far, Remington has sold 8,000 copies of its calendar at $4 each, and orders are still coming in for the vintage specimen that bears a grand magazine-art painting of a hunter and mountain lion, eyeball to eyeball. For the Depression buff who used to have everything...
Returning to top form, Keefe continued his winning ways, copping top honors against Brown and Dartmouth, and making strong showings in the other meets. The harrier squad made a slight comeback, but on the whole, the season was disappointing...
Cornell staged a comeback at this point, with quarterback Kevin Sigler throwing 18 yards to Bruce Starks for a touchdown. Kevin Scott then registered the two-point conversion by diving over the goalline...