Word: reclaim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city tried to reclaim the land above the overpass from Harvard five years ago, when Vellucci proposed that the parcel be used for a high school track. The plan was abandoned after city and University officials agreed the track would be "shaped like a knockwurst," a city councilor remembered last night...
...enemy, and old lessons die hard. While my trust of white people has been betrayed many times to manipulate my behavior, to blind me to the harsh realities of living Black in this society, and to rob me of a heritage it will take years to reclaim, there is also enough proof in my experience to keep me from writing off the lesson as a total...
...mountains that towered behind him, National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski was in an elevated mood when he inspected Pakistan's border with Afghanistan last week. "You should know that the entire world is outraged," he told a group of refugees at Sadda, urging them in effect to reclaim their land "because God is on your side." After lunching in the mess of the famed Khyber Rifles, Brzezinski was garlanded by area tribal chiefs and had his picture taken at the Khyber Pass, quipping that it would be "a historic picture-three weeks before the march on Kabul." He spotted...
...found only among museum relics or glimpsed in old paintings; even when they were reconstructed, few performers knew how to tune or play them. But in the past few decades there has been a revolution in early music. Dozens of scholarly, dedicated ensembles have sprung up to try to reclaim Atlantis, not in the spirit of archaeology but of art, by reimagining it. In the U.S., no other group approaches the task with more style and verve than the Waverly Consort...