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Word: comebacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comeback trail. We're gonna kick the hell out of U-Mass and Providence," head cross country coach Bill McCurdy said last night...

Author: By E. J. Dionne and James Hines, S | Title: Harriers Hoping for Comeback Face Providence U-Mass. | 10/5/1971 | See Source »

Today, Lincoln-Mercury is Detroit's comeback champion. It is the fastest-growing division in the auto industry, posting new sales records month after month. For the year as a whole, L-M sales are up 24%, and its share of the market has climbed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Up from Edsel | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

After wriggling and pouting her way to fame as an oversexed nymphet in the 1962 film Lolita, Actress Sue Lyon went through a disastrous marriage. She is now making a comeback as George Hamilton's wife in a new motorcycle epic. She has remarried-this time to a struggling Los Angeles photographer named Roland Harrison, 33. Harrison hopes to become a successful freelancer, and his 25-year-old wife hopes to rise above her reputation as screendom's synonym for overheated pubescence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 19, 1971 | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...signal light goes on on a console at mission control. But the light will go out when the hatch is half closed, as with a half-slammed car door." The calamity came at a time when the Russians seemed to be overtaking the U.S. in space-a remarkable comeback after they abandoned the race to land the first man on the moon. Still, the comeback was not entirely without its price. After the crash that killed Cosmonaut Komarov, the Soyuz spacecraft made no manned flights for 18 months while its faulty systems were overhauled. Although three manned Soyuz ships were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Triumph and Tragedy of Soyuz 11 | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

King Coal, once written off as an early victim of the nuclear age, has instead become its first comeback kid. U.S. coal production, which dropped by more than a third midway through the '50s, this year is on the way to setting a new record somewhat above the previous high of 630 million tons in 1947. Largely as a result of the deepening national energy crisis, President Nixon recently asked Congress to double funding of research into new and cleaner ways of using the fuel that ran steamboats and locomotives. Before the industry can fully savor its new-found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: The Comeback King | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

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