Word: reclaimer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pout and look earnest; one could almost indulge his presence in a high school production of Romeo and Juliet. But he is, at best, a puppy lover, not someone who can portray a lad nurturing his passion for two years in an insane asylum and emerging to find and reclaim his love in the face of all opposition...
...nearly a decade, many Hawaiians have been pushing to reclaim the lands that were seized from their ancestors when the U.S. annexed the islands in 1898. "We were seeing everything slipping out of our hands," recalls Charles Kauluwehi Maxwell, a retired Maui policeman. "The native Hawaiians felt that the only thing they had to hang on to was their land." In 1973 the first of several bills claiming reparations of 2 million acres and $1 billion was introduced in Congress. Hawaiian activists believe that any settlement will have to await the report of a Native Hawaiians Study Commission...
...waitress who is as determined to escape her past as Lou is to recapture his Loonily, she aspires to be the first female dealer in the casino at Monte Carlo, and her plucky struggle to keep the panic pushed down inside her when her former life reaches out to reclaim her is played with the subtle clarity one associates with Sarandon's work. There is a core of strength in her, even when she is playing losers, a lack of guile and artifice that is extremely appealing. She evokes sympathy without asking for pity...
Sacrificing the opportunity to reclaim their title should not disturb the batswomen, who are planning to make a run for the red Ivy League championship this season. At the tournament last year, the Crimson finished an overall fourth behind Yale, Brown and Penn, the only varsity softball squads in the Ivies at the time...
...June soon after admitting to immigration officials that he had a record of four convictions in his homeland (two suitcase thefts that he maintained were necessary "to clothe my family," attempted burglary and a prison escape). Rodriguez was waiting at Leavenworth while Washington tried to persuade Havana to reclaim him and about 1,800 other "undesirables." So far, the Cuban government has demurred. Since Rodriguez was never officially admitted to the U.S., he is considered to be technically "waiting at the border" and thus is not safeguarded by the Constitution-as even illegal aliens...