Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Music: Country legend Johnny Cash makes a comeback...
...first speaker was Dave Dravecky, the San Francisco Giants pitcher who came back from cancer surgery on his throwing arm to win a game before the arm broke like a twig in his second comeback start. A videotape of that last game had most of the crowd crying, then cheering the big and earnest one-armed man onstage. "When You Can't Come Back" was his title, and he talked about God and Jesus, telling some awkward jokes with punch lines like, "She is the wind beneath my wing . . . singular, not plural, get it?" Another video introduced Mary Lou Retton...
...weird feeling," Bernhard said. "A tie is like kissing your sister. But we have to be proud of our comeback against...
...Bulldogs then completed the comeback with three straight three-set victories at second, fourth and fifth singles to hand the Crimson its second EITA loss of the year...
Caterpillar Inc. is one of the big corporate comeback stories: after slashing its work force from 60,558 in 1988 to 50,749 by the close of 1993, the company has got its costs down and its productivity up and is doing its first rehiring in five years. But Sandy Koicuba, 44, does not feel she is making any comeback -- even though she is one of those rehired. In late 1992 she was laid off as a materials specialist at the York, Pennsylvania, manufacturing plant; she has been recalled to pack materials in a warehouse across the street. Her wage...