Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Refusing to coast after their breakaway opening period, the cagers continued to tough it out under the boards during the second quarter. Freshman Marsha Davenport played spoiler to Emerson's comeback hopes, repeatedly stealing the ball and converting the thefts into points...
Stevens managed to return many of Ware's hard, well-controlled rail serves and slicing backhand,, but tired in the second game. She made a strong comeback in the final game, tucking the ball continually into the back corner...
Dartmouth made a minor comeback three minutes after the Crimson goal when the Big Green's Brian McCloskey caught goalie Petrovek in the wrong corner and slapped in a very easy shot. Harvard then scored another goal with 90 seconds left in the match when Dartmouth's goalie, Jeff Sollows, fell on the ice to stop what he thought was an attempted shot. When Sollows hit the ice, Harvard's Mike Leckie, assisted by the ubiquitous Horton and Bell, made a shot that ran up the score...
...school and the 90th birthday of former Congressman Carl Vinson, a small group of protesters detracted little from the President's rousing reception. Nixon's only reference to his troubles was a typical football analogy: "I followed the Falcons, and I guess you would call them the comeback team of 1973," he said. "They lost their first three and they have won their last six. I ought to have a talk with Norm Van Brocklin [the Atlanta Falcons coach] and find out how they...
Finding Ways. While there were signs that Nixon's comeback effort was progressing among his loyal followers in the South and elsewhere, his larger fate remained in doubt. As the tapes episode again demonstrated, he still has not carried out the promises of candor that he has so often made. Amazingly, Nixon's aides contend that he is still trying to find ways to make the tapes and other critical facts public. His critics cannot be blamed for wondering why it is so difficult to find the means...