Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard foil and epee teams sparked the Crimson comeback, winning 9 out of 12 bouts in the last two rounds, including five of six in the pivotal second stanza. Overall the foil and epee teams each ran up 6-3 bouting records for the afternoon...
...said that every thinking man needs a fallow period. But after a suitable period of lying fallow, the Chairman of the Board woke up one morning and found that he had "been replaced as the nation's singing idol." It was time to begin his comeback career. Following a 1973 White House command performance and a TV special, Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back, Sinatra made his first nightclub appearance in three years at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace. Last week, after a standing ovation from an invited audience of 1,300, including James Stewart, Helen Reddy, Rosalind Russell...
...Celtics Jumped to a 25-19 first period lead on the shooting of Jo Jo White and John Havlicek. They managed to cling to the advantage, and widen the margin to nine points midway through the second period before the Bullets began their comeback...
...next season, as Mike began his comeback, we struck up a friendship and became drinking partners. Eighteen-year-old drinking hadn't yet become legal in Maine, and drinking partnership was a serious affair. During the winter, we would cruise the back roads of Kennebunk, quaffing Colt .45, the completely unique experience. With Mike, it was. Mike took his drinking seriously, but had a morbid funny bone when it came to close calls. One winter night, after upsetting a 16 oz. Colt in my lap by skidding around a corner and ramming a snowbank, Mike looked over and grinned...
...radio drama in for a resurgence? That seems no more likely than the comeback of silent two-reelers. All that can reasonably be expected now is a brief eavesdropping on the past - an opportunity to employ the long-rusted faculty of imagination...