Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overthrow Boumedienne in 1969. Associates of Ben Bella were exultant. Said Bachir Boumaza, his onetime Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, who is in exile in Geneva: "We are now entering a new phase in Algeria's history." Still, Ben Bella was unlikely to try a political comeback. Though he is now free to see visitors at his new home in M'sila, 187 miles from Algiers, his movements are restricted to a limited area around the town...
Clutching "Great Comeback of '54" wastebaskets and wearing floppy white sunhats, 557 members of the Class of '54, their wives and children registered for their 25th Reunion yesterday...
Well, it didn't happen. In a remarkable comeback, the lights roared past the Quakers to snatch a 5.4-second victory and the first leg of what was to end up as an undefeated season...
Lafleur had been the impetus behind Montreal's late comeback from a 3-1 deficit as the third period began. At 6:10 he circled the Boston cage, then spotted Mark Napier streaking netward and gave him a perfect set-up. Two minutes after that, Lafleur repeated the trick as Guy Lapointe tied it from the point...
Taking no chances, the lights sprinted the last 200 meters to reach open water and squelch any Williams or Cornell hopes for a comeback...