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Word: comebacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Junior Honor MacNaughton led the team's attack the whole season, but she had to carry the entire offensive workload early on. In the third game of the season (at B.U.), MacNaughton scored five of the team's 10 goals to lead a comeback victory, prompting Harvard coach Carole Kleinfelder to mutter after one of her tallies, "We're a one-woman offense...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: W. Lax Stays in Ivy Lower Echelon | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Harvard women's volleyball's 17-17 season record, an otherwise equivocal .500 ending statistic, unfortunately hides the team's perseverance, comeback finish and growing team cohesiveness...

Author: By Dena J. Springer, | Title: W. Spikers Finish Strong | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...answer is far from clear, so I decide to do some digging. It doesn't take me long to come upon rumors that, much to my surprise, a Reubens comeback may be in the works, that he may be starring in a new show for the Carsey-Werner production company. After some serious phone tag, I find myself on the receiving end of a call from James Anderson, the director of publicity for Carsey-Werner...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: Pee Wee's Next Adventure | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

MOSCOW: Railing at rampant military corruption, Boris Yeltsin primed himself for a political comeback, firing Defense Minister Igor Rodionov and the country's top military commander for failing to cut costs and slash Russia's overmanned armed forces. "I am not just unsatisfied. I am outraged," Yeltsin lectured the Defense Council in a nationally televised dressing down. Acknowledging that he has been somewhat "removed" from running the country recently (a state of affairs popularly linked to everything from alcoholism to senility), Yeltsin told the defense chiefs that he is now back in charge, a thinly veiled threat in a country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yeltsin Ditches Defense Minister | 5/22/1997 | See Source »

...also shines, particularly during his bout with deafness: his superbly comic expressions render even the old gag of mishearings and misunderstandings a la Cuthbert Calculus extremely funny. Daniel Goor '97 almost steals the second act as the sardonic, tough-talking Officer Welch, but Amblad's Lenny makes a sweeping comeback with the rip-roaring rigmarole that brings the farce to its zany climax...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: How to Make 'Rumors' Flourish | 5/1/1997 | See Source »

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