Word: reclaimer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides, the Republicans can reclaim Democratic turf. "If Geraldine can hawk the stuff," George exclaims in his clumsy yet eloquent, boyish yet tough, Southern yet Puritan, wimpy yet wimpy, utterly consistent way, "then, goddammit...
...Something better than a man. A boy. A child. Her child. The child she conceived at 15 in a tussle with a fairground Casanova. The son she bore and, within two days, was forced to give up. If she can find him, 20 years later, perhaps she can reclaim the dreams of her youth and get a first grip on maturity. "Come soon," she whispers through the mirror to her onetime son and would-be lover. "Come today...
...novel, in fact, the only significant things that have happened are that Adam's mother has come to visit, he has been stabbed, in the middle of masturbating, by Christopher's mother who returns in the middle of the night to reclaim her son, and Christopher takes a step at the end of the novel. We know that Adam will continue in San Francisco for at least the rest of the year. But the rest is uncertain...
...would never permit Iraq to lose. That line of reasoning had emerged on previous occasions. Tehran has long complained about U.S. warships' protecting gulf shipping from Iranian attack. Iran has accused Washington, correctly, of providing military intelligence to Iraq and more recently charged, altogether incorrectly, that U.S. troops helped reclaim the Fao peninsula. Says a U.S. military analyst: "Iran needed a fall...
...dollar amount of agricultural exports could rise this year even as the actual volume may fall. Producers in Europe, South America and Australia will step in to meet the demand that U.S. growers fail to serve. Once those competitors gain market share, American farmers will have to struggle to reclaim it. That is just one more reason they are praying for rain and cheering every drop...