Word: reclaimation
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...journal’s editors say its title has caused some controversy, but that they chose the word “queer” as part of an effort to reclaim what had long been a derogatory term...
...Marines came to the Euphrates River town last month hoping to show a kinder face to residents than they had experienced at the hands of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division. But after the slaughter of four American contractors in Fallujah early this month, U.S. commanders decided to reclaim the city. Last Monday about 1,500 Marines of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and some Army special forces--along with 2,000 Iraqi security troops and about 50 U.S.-trained Iraqi commandos--began debriding Fallujah of its guerrillas as part of Operation Vigilant Resolve. In the first five days...
...everyone who finds excess efficiency not exemplary but egregious, it’s time to reclaim “Sunday evenings in” as a source of pride, not shame. No matter how much you’re craving that Hanson hit, or those comfy chairs, or even that useful reminder of the joys of rhyming verse, Lamont isn’t the answer to your end-of-weekend woes. Study should be study regardless of whether anyone is watching. Resist ingratiation into the cult of the Reading Room and don’t make productivity a performance...
...goal was just the ninth Howard had allowed in more than 700 minutes of action—all of them coming on the power play—but he was clearly unsteady, pacing uneasily in his crease in an attempt to reclaim his confidence after the tally...
...they don't want full independence but insist on a great deal of autonomy, which the new interim constitution affords them. But the rival groups coexist warily. Saddam had expelled many Kurds from Kirkuk in his attempt to Arabicize the city. Now they're coming back to try to reclaim their homes. Haider Mohammed, 20, an Arab who studies at a local technical college, says Kurds in his neighborhood are pressuring Arabs to sell their houses, sometimes for less than market price. With Kurds now dominating the city administration and police, his family is finding it difficult to resist pressure...