Word: reclaim
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...then, after The Middle Ground, silence. Drabble busied herself preparing a new edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature, which was published in 1985. This task, though eminently worthwhile, raised a troubling question. Had Drabble given up her struggle to reclaim some of the public world, the intricate web of the way we live now, as the proper province of fiction...
Unfortunately, Mills tore cartilage in his right knee while playing soccer last May, and has not been fit enough this season to reclaim his starting position...
...forth in time, Morrison's narrative slowly unfolds the rationale behind Sethe's violent act. What seems incomprehensible gradually takes on an awful inevitability. Having risked everything to escape servitude and degradation and having tasted nearly a month of freedom, Sethe saw four men on horseback approaching to reclaim her and her children: "And if she thought anything, it was No. No. Nono. Nonono. Simple. She just flew. Collected every bit of life she had made, all the parts of her that were precious and fine and beautiful, and carried, pushed, dragged them through the veil, out, away, over there...
...passed at the end of this year or early next, the Democratic Progressives suffer from a bad case of factionalism, which is certain to be aggravated by the recent release of long-imprisoned opposition leaders. Now that they are free again, they are sure to be impatient to reclaim their old political roles...
...than any of the three branches of government that magnificent document created. It was that obligation Americans neglected after they twice elected Ronald Reagan to the presidency. If any good is to come out of the whole Reagan-Iran-contra mess, it will be if individual Americans rediscover and reclaim that duty to themselves and to each other...