Word: reclaim
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...frustration with my lack of cultural identity springs, I think, from my inability to form this sort of connection. Though I’ve not stooped to reclaim my Freedonian citizenship, I have, at times, been sorely tempted. This weekend, after many telephone calls conducted at a high volume in what sounded to me like particularly vituperative Greek, my roommate departed for a Greek club in Boston with a swarm of people with whom she shares little more than a common heritage. And as I watched her go, part of me wished that I could have a posse of Freedonians...
...Hopeless though his candidacy may be, Al Sharpton will probably charm the crowd tonight. And Dean is certainly charming New Hampshire—largely because voters think he isn’t hesitating to let his personality (some would say anger) show through. If the Democratic establishment wants to reclaim the initiative, they ought to be willing to shoot from the hip once in a while; it’s worked wonders for Republicans lately...
Visa problems prevented a delegation of Muscovite monks from coming to Harvard this weekend on a quest to reclaim their sacred bells from Lowell House...
Holding the top rank in the Eastern Association of Women’s Rowing Colleges (EAWRC), Radcliffe started off the weekend in top form, with the varsity eight boat beating Yale by 2 seconds to reclaim the Case Cup, with UVA one second behind further off the pace...
Characterizing the Democratic campaign to reclaim the White House in the grassroots terms of the Boston Tea Party, Dean implied—much to the crowd’s approval—that then, as now, “there was a king named George who had forgotten his own people in favor of the special interests...