Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...League contests this past weekend, the Harvard basketball team fell behind early, had to play comeback ball, and eventually dropped both games, 84-60 to Penn Friday night and 91-66 to Princeton Saturday night...
From the day he resigned last November as editor of the Saturday Review in a policy disagreement with its new owners, it was a foregone conclusion that Norman Cousins would try a comeback with a new magazine. He had headed SR for 31 years, shaped it to his own personal tastes, and considered it to be "what my life is all about." Sure enough, Cousins confirmed last week that plans are well along for a new fortnightly that will probably appear in late spring...
...call you later." Giving the models an appreciative eye: "I don't know about the clothes but the rest of the merchandise is great." Told by a woman that she had just talked to the ailing Mrs. Mitchell on the phone, John was right there with the comeback. "Who doesn't?" he asked...
...used to be a teen-age idol," laments the eponymous hero of Cisco Pike. Now, down and out in Venice, Calif., he is trying for a comeback, but the record companies are no longer interested...
...legal" morphine addict for nearly 20 years, but Stern climbed to the top in radio and then TV sports coverage. His career crumbled when he suffered a nervous breakdown on the air while broadcasting the 1956 Sugar Bowl game for ABC-TV. He then kicked drugs and made a comeback in 1959. Recently, he narrated sports shows for the Mutual Broadcasting System...