Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aging caudillo's comeback may well be the political feat-or at least phenomenon-of the century. It is rare enough for a failed leader to get a second chance in a stable democracy, even if he is relatively young. But overthrown dictators hardly ever return to the scene of their prime, unless it is behind guns pointed at their successors. Though no stranger to force, Perón has used none directly to regain his power...
...served up in Spanish rings these days. At the moment of truth, they have fallen short-and so have some of the ambitious social programs built on them. It is no surprise, then, that certain seemingly obsolescent ideas, long ago discarded and (some thought) buried forever, are making a comeback and looking fresher than ever in their second incarnation. Or is it their third or fourth...
Evert staged a brief comeback at Wimbledon by defeating Court but then got soundly spanked in the finals by Billie Jean King...
...knock myself loose for Mr. Nixon in 1959 and 1960," he wrote, "and cast my lot with him through the long, arid comeback years of 1965 through 1968 to have him-or some lizard-lidded paranoid acting in his name without his approval-eavesdropping on my conversations...
...fragrance, has completed three other films and put four more into production; it aims eventually to turn out six a year. Grant, who took a glider ride at a Sun Valley film festival last week to plug the movies, insists that he plans no acting comeback. "I'm really interested in the economics of it," he says. He points out that in addition to any profit, "each time one of our films is mentioned anywhere in the world, it is identified as a Brut production; you get a great deal back in hidden advertising." The new film division...