Word: reclaim
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When Senior Commissioned Boatswain George Wookey of the British navy went over the side of the experimental diving ship H.M.S. Reclaim, he knew he was headed for a trying experience. The Reclaim was anchored in a cold Norwegian fiord, and on the bottom, at 600 ft. below the surface, was a steel table. Boatswain Wookey's job was to descend to the table in an ordinary diving suit and stay there for a specified time. If he accomplished this and survived, he would break the diving record by a wide margin...
...picnicked on the lawn with ex-Mayor of Philadelphia Joseph Clark, trundled a huge bag of groceries (packed mostly with wadded paper) from his car to the front porch, where he sat down, delivered a homespun talk on the high cost of living, ending with Nancy arriving to reclaim the forgotten groceries ("You were a big help, Guv!"), bantered farm problems over the back fence with Estes Kefauver, cavorted about a well-clipped lawn with his dog Muldoon (who chewed the lapel off a soundman's jacket). Said Film-Maker Herschell Lewis: "The attempt is to make the viewer...
...parched gulley. But in the monsoon, it became a raging torrent, scourging the Damodar Valley with malarial, crop-destroying floods. Last week the fickle Damodar could bear a new name: the River of Promise. Across its path stood three mighty dams, shunting water into irrigation ditches that will eventually reclaim 1,026,000 acres of wasteland, and four humming power plants generating 200,000 kw. of electric-power capacity. The valley's desert was turning green with crops; plumes of smoke from new plants rose in the air. With 80% of India's coal, 98% of its iron...
...before U.S. Ambassador Horace Porter, a former Army general, spent $35,000 and six years to locate his remains could the U.S. reclaim its hero...
...week's end, Federal Housing Administration Commissioner Norman P. Mason, who is negotiating to get some of the windfall money back from some 6,500 other building projects, said that he would keep right on trying. BIR. which has 1,400 other suits pending to reclaim an estimated $1.5 billion in taxes on similar building profits, plans to appeal the Tax Court decision. But its chances look bleak...