Word: reclaim
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...eyed poule, impishly played by Marie Laforêt. Accidentally glued together in transit, the franc notes must be washed and ironed, Marie decrees. Her laundry is only half done, festooning every square inch of space, when someone notices that gendarmes have surrounded the villa-not to reclaim the clean lucre, after all, but to capture a wild bull in the garden. Though Department Store follows the perennial Rififi formula, Director Pierre Grimblat has wrapped up an ingenious package of Sennett slapstick, Gallic gaiety and bits of Yuletide foolery that deserves to outlast the tinsel and snow...
...when he sets the stage for Kennedy's Inauguration by describing the "eerie beauty" of blizzard-bound Washington, to page 1031, when he rings down the curtain on a snow-covered grave in Arlington, he follows Thomas Babington Macaulay's dictum that "a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated...
According to Kissinger, de Gaulle believes that, if France is to reclaim her greatness, she must "regain--wherever possible--the right of independent decision...
...Bobby. Beyond that, the program includes $36.5 million to help reclaim millions of acres of land that have been abandoned after being gouged and torn by strip mining. It also provides $41 million for hospital construction, $28 million for hospital maintenance, $16 million to construct vocational schools, $5,000,000 for water-resources studies, $5,000,000 to help develop timber resources, $6,000,000 for sewage-treatment systems, and $2,400,000 for administration...
...later, Eisako Sato, 63, the dynamo of five former Cabinets, became the tenth Prime Minister of postwar Japan-and, all but inevitably, a man destined to guide his nation along a new course, for, after 19 years of penance, Asia's only fully industrialized country seems about to reclaim its place as a world power. Said Sato in his first nationwide television address as Premier: "Japan's international voice has been too small." How would it be made louder...