Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the personal attacks, Professor Mansfield! Step aside, Camille, I see a comeback...
...practice, Asa had tried to dunk twice before in a game and had been unsuccessful. Against Burlington during our sophomore year in a game that I am sure Harvard baseball's Denny Doble remembers, Asa found himself alone under the basket with Belmont desperately trying to make a comeback. Asa tried to dunk but missed, smashing the ball off the back...
After lying low since the GOP midterm election sweep and enduring criticism even from his Democratic allies,President Clinton made a vigorous comeback speechto the Democratic Leadership Council last night -- with a few defensive barbs. "Join me in the arena, not in the peanut gallery," Clinton told the moderate group he once led, referring to current chairman Oklahoma Rep. Dave McCurdy, who just hours before saddled him with the label "transitional figure." The president then issued a battle cry to Democrats that implied he'd work to reclaim the center for the party's -- and his own -- welfare. After praising...
Despite furious last-minute campaigning, the Comeback Kid failed this time to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Weary of the ways of Washington, frustrated voters ejected President Clinton's Democratic majorities from the halls of Congress, handing control of both houses to the G.O.P. for the first time in 40 years. In all, not a single incumbent Republican Senator, Representative or Governor lost. Jubilant party leaders reveled in the political revolution -- on the one hand openly stretching out an arm of cooperation to the President, on the other eagerly preparing to flex their invigorated conservative muscles. Following...
...Comeback...