Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days ago, Scoggins climaxed a brilliant comeback by earning the number seven oar in the first boat after Art Cooper had injured his back. He had to beat out Paul Ramsey, and he did. Today he'll be at number five, "in the engine room...
...clearly what Scoggins is really looking for right now is some space in Sports Illustrated as the boy who made the big comeback. He stresses that he won't get that chance unless Harvard wins today...
Never before and probably never again will the legend Fitzgerald created for himself and for his era have more commercial allure. Nostalgia, we are told, is in. So is art deco. Alcohol is making a comeback on the college campus, according to the New York Times . And women's liberation, one of our honest national issues, can rightly claim Zelda as an early casualty to male chauvinist pigdom...
...FOUR YEARS after the Gans-Nelson bout, Tex Rickard staged and refereed the heavyweight championship contest between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries. Jeffries, who held the title from 1899 until he retired in 1904, had been persuaded to make a comeback. Dressed for his role, Jeffries entered the ring on July 4, 1910, with American flags on his trunks, proclaiming that he would give Johnson "the licking of his life." The record-breaking crowd cheered for all it was worth. Then Johnson stepped into the ring to an anvil chorus of passionate booing and nigger baiting. Two years before, Johnson...
...only for his hit movies made with one star, Lylah Clare. Zarkin's career died with the mysterious death of his leading lady, which occurred the night he married her. Now, a couple of decades later, he finds a Lylah-look-alike (Kim Novak) and decides to make a comeback by putting her in a film about the Lylah legend...