Word: comedownance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NUITS DE PARIS, by Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne. Restif may be somewhat of a comedown from the great court gossip, Saint-Simon, but he set down the life in Paris just before the Revolution vividly and prophetically, and thus produced, without his aristocratic brain ever knowing it, an indelible picture of an 18th-century slum...
...will not be an easy job. The Tigers are a feeble version of the team that terrorized the league in the past, but they are bigger than ever and undoubtedly disgruntled at their ignominious comedown...
...hero? While his mates knock heads on the field this fall, Hornung will be riding high on the banquet circuit, raking in money from endorsements and jamming radio and TV programs. Barring an upset stomach or laryngitis, he should make more than $40,000 this year-only a slight comedown from last year's $50,000 total...
...were pleased to point out that the U.S. is sending an admiral as envoy to a land whose seafaring tradition is still nourished by the long-ago exploits of Prince Henry the Navigator and Vasco da Gama. But even so, for George Anderson the new job is quite a comedown...
...feel that he had suffered a comedown from his days of real power in the Senate? "I have never felt that the vice-presidency was a comedown from anything,'' murmured Lyndon, ''except the presidency...