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Word: comebacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Near the end of the game, with the Crimson attempting a comeback, the Huskies also showed off their poise and experience. Even though they had been outrebounded all day, with 2:06 to go the Huskies got three straight offensive rebounds which took 1:21 off the clock and left the Crimson with almost no time left to overcome the deficit. Hammick had two of those rebounds, including one off his own shot...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Basketball Notebook | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...RYDER CUP TEAM It shouldn't have been close. But as the final day's play began, the Sergio Garcia-led Euros were on the brink of humiliating the superstar-laden U.S. team again. Then the Americans made the most remarkable comeback in Ryder Cup history, winning 9 of 12 matches--and exulting with an ungolflike, but very American, dog pile on the 17th green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Sports of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...JOHN ELWAY After nearly a lifetime of playing the loser, the NFL's greatest comeback strategist applied that same skill to his career, winning a second Super Bowl before deciding his pained body couldn't handle any more. You can credit the coaching, the line or Terrell Davis, but the Broncos collapsed when Elway left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Sports of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...often dark, comedy does not escape this production. As the precociously naive and fashion-impaired George Aaronow, Juri Henley-Cohn ('00) delicately handles and balances a role which, had it been exaggerated, might have destroyed the naturalism of the piece. As Shelley Levene, an aging seller desperate for a comeback, Paul Monteleoni ('00) continually provides the play with energy and freshness. If ever this humorous vitality turns unwieldy, Monteleoni always manages to rein himself back in with a sudden change of tone or an expression that reestablishes realism in the scene. Although saddled with one of the play's less...

Author: By By JULIE L. rattey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Glengarry: Not A World of Men--Ruiz assembles power cast in Kronauer space | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...like most soap operas, this one is gearing up for another emotional climax. It's a comeback on Broadway, where Liza opens this week in a month-long concert engagement at the Palace Theater, where Garland herself once staged a famous comeback. Called Minnelli on Minnelli, Liza's show is a tribute to the movies of her father Vincente, director of such classic Hollywood musicals as Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris and Gigi. In it she reminisces a bit, shows pictures from the family album, sings numbers identified with her mother that she would never touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maybe This Time | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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