Word: reclaim
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Last week, the clouds were lifting. Priestess Aiko had sent Wu charging back into competition. Without so much as a practice jump he squelched squat Utaro Hashimoto, the come-lately champion, breezed through the Yomiuri newspaper's big tournament, hoped to reclaim his old title by early 1947 (one hard-fought go match took him three years to finish). Wu explained that he was not using his own mind at all; his moves were divinely inspired...
Britain, the strongest imperialist, had agreed to occupy southern Indo-China until the French could send forces to reclaim it. Moving into Saigon last month, Major General Douglas Gracey told the nationalist Viet Nam Party to suspend business, asked surrendering Japanese to help him keep the peace, let them keep their arms...
They were already making attempts to reclaim their soil. On dry isolated spots farmers hoed sugar beets, tended their barnyard fowl. Plank walks were set on fences above the water. At one place dike workers mended the torn sea wall in the age-old manner. A score of them hauled on the ropes of a leaden pile driver, keeping time to the chant of a greybeard...
...wake of Benito Mussolini's African conquests in the 1930s, the Roman Catholic Church sent a host of missionaries swarming into Ethiopia. Their aim: to "reclaim" for the Catholic faith the five million members of Ethiopia's ancient Christian Coptic Church. Since then Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Elect of God and Emperor of Ethiopia, has taken a very dim view of missionaries in general, Catholic missionaries in particular...
...fact, also, the cotton market is so manipulated politically that, while everybody else loses, the potent 2,000,000 cottongrowers cannot. Commodity Credit Corporation must lend them up to 90% of the parity price for their crops. If prices go up, the growers can reclaim their cotton for private sale. But if prices start downward, an artificial scarcity is created. For eleven years cottongrowers have unloaded their surpluses on the U.S. taxpayer, and have used the taxpayer's money to build a firm floor under cotton prices. CCC cotton holdings last month: seven million bales...