Word: reclaim
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...city has let Harvard maintain the land and determine how to use it, but Cambridge has the right to reclaim the property anytime, city solicitor Russell B. Higley said yesterday...
What Weideger and other feminists want most of all is to end the taboo. One suggestion: a party for a daughter at her first menstruation. The taboo, Weideger insists, is based on "fears held by men and directed toward women. It is time for women to reclaim menstruation and define for ourselves how we feel about...
...life. Pasolini was a leftist even though his older brother was killed by a leftist group in a vicious slaughter--which turned out to be a tragic mistake. He supported the PCI despite the fact that they tried to disown him when his homosexuality first became known, only to reclaim him again when "Ragazzi di Vita made him famous...
Congress also moved belatedly to reclaim its right to oversee the operations of the Federal Government, notably the intelligence-gathering agencies. Both chambers established committees to investigate the CIA and the FBI. Result: a relentless flow of revelations about past abuses at home and abroad. The exposure was undoubtedly healthy-up to a point. But in the case of the CIA, it also severely hampered the agency's effectiveness. This year, the committees may well establish guidelines for the conduct of both organizations and try to restore the long-neglected function of congressional oversight...
...Dartmouth did retaliate with a field goal, a wind-aided 49 yard job early in the second period to reclaim the lead, 10-7, but one could sense that the day was going to be Harvard's. Perhaps it was a let down after last week's emotional tie with Brown the week before, but whatever it was, Dartmouth didn't seem to be playing with the same fervor that usually characterises its performances against Harvard...