Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This movie has every tear-jerking device known to Hollywood, and then some. Its central characters are an adorable eight-year-old boy and his loving dad, a has-been boxer. The action is pure hokum. Will Dad throw off his addictions to gambling and booze and make a comeback in the ring? Will Dad's exwife, now a remarried society lady, try to regain custody of the son she once abandoned? Will Dad and Mom fall in love again? Will the son's pet horse win the race at Hialeah? The heart boggles...
Schramm was in tenth place after five dives in that event, but his comeback bid in the 11-dive contest fell just short...
Once sacred Maoist principles are being abandoned for more efficient but heretical ideas such as industrial competition, higher incentive wages, and productivity bonuses. Private plots on which agricultural workers can raise and sell their own crops are making a comeback. Companies are now allowed to withhold some profits to invest as they wish. An editorial in the People's Daily urged further progress down the capitalistic road. "In the process of competition," it said, "a small number of enterprises will be eliminated because their products are of poor quality. What's wrong with that? It will encourage...
Gaudet's acrobatics, which shut off the comeback bid of the resurging B.U. attack in the last six minutes of the game, proved to be the stellar performance in the contest...
Before then there had been hope and some strong play. Goaltender Wade Lau was untouchable in the 5-2 win over Providence on November 29. A questionable hooking call had negated an inspiring comeback at RPI on November 25. George Hughes had four goals in the second period of the 8-4 win over New Hampshire on December 12. Mike Watson copped a hat-trick in the 9-5 thumping of Notre Dame 11 days later...