Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...high on ER's success. The show is giving another boost to the comeback of serious TV drama. It has shown that the networks can still create hits without the help of surefire time periods. And it has proved that viewers will try something challenging when given a chance. As Crichton relates, "People in the entertainment business said, 'Viewers won't understand this show.' Finally, there's a recognition that people are smart." Television sometimes...
...image of the ball rolling into the net with the clock on its last gasp will last forever in the minds of the Harvard field hockey team. It was that goal, off a free hit and two immaculate deflections, that clinched both an impossible comeback and Harvard's 2-1 victory over Northeastern--the eighth-ranked team in the nation...
Then the Big Red mounted its most impressive comeback of the season. After taking over on its own three-yard line when Doug Knopp recovered a Dartmouth fumble with just 3:11 to play, Cornell put together a 10-play, 97-yard drive. It ended when Aaron Berryman caught a 15-yard pass from quarterback Per Larson in the end zone with 49 seconds left...
...even Steve Kezirian, the man whose comeback crested Colgate, was no match for the Mad Ludwig...
...then recovery arrived, and Wilson, a onetime Nixon advance man, staged a comeback his old boss would have admired. Freed of his fiscal straitjacket, he joyfully pressed the new hot buttons: crime and illegal immigration. His ads trumpeted his leadership of last year's triumphant three-strikes-and- you're-out movement and his enthusiasm for the death penalty. He signed on to Proposition 187, the tremendously popular, probably unconstitutional, California ballot issue that would deny the state's 1.6 million illegal aliens any health care, welfare grants or even public education...