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Word: comebacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Uniforms, like patriotism, make a comeback on campuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For ROTC, the War Is Over | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...today, instructors are visible again, and the Reserve Officers Training Corps programs of the Army, Navy and Air Force are making a comeback. Enrollment is up, and so is the prestige of ROTC. "They're not knocking our doors down," says a Washington-based ROTC official, "but it is better." As Barbara Patton, 24, a cadet at Pennsylvania's Drexel University, puts it, "The war is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For ROTC, the War Is Over | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...Engineers added three more goals in the final stanza and a string of Crimson penalties killed wheatever comeback hopes that squad might have had. RPI's crisp passing and continual movement dominated the fast-paced first period and gave the Engineers a quick 2-0 lead...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Engineers Whip Icemen, 9-1, Capitalizing on Speed, Defense | 12/6/1980 | See Source »

...might have been the sound of a four-way tie for third place. After the great start, the upsets of Army and Brown, and the comeback over Penn, Harvard's final resting place does not look especially noteworthy. But in all the furor about the potential championship--the "if Yale loses and Brown and Dartmouth tie and we win our last two" speculation endemic in the Houses this fall--it's easy to lose sight of the distance this Harvard football team travelled...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Harvard Football 1980: A Truncated Rejuvenation | 12/2/1980 | See Source »

...then has Today managed its remarkable comeback? One reason is that all the changes have made it a better show, more thoughtful than Good Morning and almost as lively. "If we have an author of a child care book, we put him on Good Morning" says a publicist. "But if we have something political or serious, we'd rather have it on Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle for the Morning | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

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