Word: comebacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't know if I was winning or losing. I didn't know I was making a comeback either. All I could think about was 'Oh My God, my thesis is due in 11 days.'"--Harvard women's fencing Captain Penelope Papailias about her rally from a 4-0 deficit to defeat Yale's top-ranked fencer in March...
Yesterday, the elusive comeback became reality, as the Crimson rallied from a 2-1 deficit with two outs in the top of the seventh for five runs...
...Meredith Rainey's record-setting performance in the 400 meters, the Harvard women's track team mounted a comeback yesterday at the Heptagonal Outdoor Championships in New York...
...performer can stay at the peak of popularity forever. In Here's Lucy's last season, ratings dropped abruptly. Although specials featuring Ball proved popular, an attempt at a sitcom comeback in 1986 was an artistic and commercial fiasco. Audiences were uncomfortable watching a senior citizen drop hammers, stub toes and otherwise attempt a pallid imitation of the pratfall past. But if the Lucy of her final years was limited to Oscar and Emmy appearances as a cherished memory, the eternal Lucy of the reruns remained imperishably funny and tender. At the news of her death last week, millions...
...Crimson once again became the "Cardiac Kids" and started the kind of comeback which has pulled out so many wins for the squad this year...