Word: reclaim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support King's agenda for improving lower and middle-class housing by protecting tenants from rent hikes and eviction and by seeking to reclaim landlord-abandoned housing. We support his continued efforts to use state end city funds to develop jobs and businesses on the community level. We support his efforts to stop race and sex related crimes through education and community programs rather than through "Kick ass" police enforcement. And we especially support King's confidence that the Hub can transcend racial hatred and violence...
...next vacation would be the patriotic boost this country needs. Instead of spending billions of dollars on redundant missile systems, the White House could reroute some of that money to fund junior high school sailing programs. The President should make a firm committment that the U.S. will reclaim the Cup and never lose it again...
...usually mere front. The snob is frequently a grand porch with no mansion attached, a Potemkin affair. The essence of snobbery is not real self-assurance but its opposite, a deep apprehension that the jungles of vulgarity are too close, that they will creep up and reclaim the soul and drag it back down into its native squalor, back to the Velveeta and the doubleknits. So the breed dresses for dinner and crooks pinkies and drinks Perrier with lime and practices sneering at all the encroaching riffraff that are really its own terrors of inadequacy. Snobbery is a grasping after...
According to Golcher, the Salvadoran army has managed to reclaim from F.M.L.N. control an area that previously contained some 1,200 guerrillas. The territory was won without a heavy fight: the guerrillas in the area moved out before the troops arrived. This time, however, the Salvadoran army does not intend to go back to its barracks; it is going to stay. Says one of the U.S. Special Forces advisers who designed the campaign: "We're not stacking up bodies, but that's not the point. We are taking back terrain, clearing the area, getting lots of intelligence...
...very American: the kids going into business for themselves and wanting to define precisely what the terms of the enterprise are to be. Good luck. The self-made ceremony expresses a kind of romantic individualism (not to say, sometimes, narcissism) that wants to reclaim the event from its bloodless institutional routine and make it mean something wondrous and memorable. Marriage is, one thinks at the start, a long journey. The couple want a bright send-off at the station to think about during those interminable stretches later on, when the landscape becomes as featureless and wearying as the steppe...