Word: reclaim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suffered a worse kind of obscurity: success. The ethnic narcissism of Fiddler on the Roof, based on his Tevye stories, has drowned his oeuvre in a chorus of If I Were a Rich Man and Sunrise, Sunset. The World of Sholom Aleichem attempts to whisper where Fiddler bellowed, to reclaim the writer from the ripoffs. But, as the Yiddish proverb has it, you can't pull two hides off one ox. The musical used Aleichem to carry the tunes; the material is now too depleted to carry an evening...
...almost everywhere, it snowed. In western Montana, 40-ft. drifts foiled efforts to reclaim two bodies from a private-plane crash. Near South Bend, Ind., 107 travelers were blizzardbound for a night in a state police barracks. Buffalo had a snowfall record: 25 in. in 24 hours. In the South, snow of any depth is a shock, and snow fell in every Southern state, in some for three days running; as much as 5 in. piled up in Georgia...
...housing, I am proposing that we reclaim the abandoned housing in this state, and allow for the use of state pension funds and revenue bonds to finance lower than market rate mortgages so that the working people of this state will once again be able to afford a home. I have proposals for increasing co-operative housing and encouraging private investors to work with community groups and tenant associations, not only to increase the supply of housing, but to encourage greater participation in ownership or management of housing...
...second staged by California's Indians, and may soon be followed by others because of a controversial state decision in September. Bowing to strong pressure from an Indian heritage group led by William Pink, 31, the state parks and recreation department agreed to allow the tribes to reclaim bones and artifacts from its collection in Sacramento. Curator Francis Riddell was in despair: "We're giving back what I spent 25 years excavating and preserving." The Yuroks reburied their bones in an unmarked plot to guard against future looters. The field at Patrick's Point, though...
...Chairman, I would like to reclaim my time. I never talk theory because I don't know theory. I only know practice...