Word: reclaiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through other plantations in Liberia and Malaysia, but it will likely buy Indonesian rubber. Goodyear is negotiating to return. Its first task if it does: to restore efficiency at the Bogor plant, where tire output is off two-thirds since U.S. managers were kicked out. Union Carbide hopes to reclaim its battery plant, may also start tungsten mining. Caltex, which recently signed a five-year $50 million contract to supply the Indonesian government with lubricating oils and grease, has set aside $10 million to open a new oil field in addition to its present 310,000 barrels-a-day operation...
...papers. "Independent placement" is not illegal in most states as long as no baby broker receives a profit for arranging the deal, but it can produce painful complications. If, as often happens, the natural mother knows who the new parents are, she can subsequently turn up and try to reclaim her child...
...shooting survivors. Gradually, the remaining defenders pulled back around the two 105s still in U.S. hands. The guns were cranked down to point-blank range; high-explosive shells, white phosphorus and "beehives," the deadly modern version of grapeshot, were fired at the enemy. Helicoptered reinforcements soon arrived to reclaim the hill with its burden of heavy casualties, including 117 enemy dead...
...power is withdrawn to search out the enemy elsewhere, the water, meaning the Red control of the countryside, runs back. Pacification efforts have largely failed in rural areas because there are not enough Allied troops to leave behind to provide a permanent shield behind which civilian teams can reclaim the peasants for the government. Even should negotiations take place, most U.S. officers in Viet Nam think the U.S. will need to be around for a long time in force to ensure that all the local Viet Cong, from village cops to schoolteachers, are identified by the Vietnamese and rooted...
...eyed poule, impishly played by Marie Laforêt. Accidentally glued together in transit, the franc notes must be washed and ironed, Marie decrees. Her laundry is only half done, festooning every square inch of space, when someone notices that gendarmes have surrounded the villa-not to reclaim the clean lucre, after all, but to capture a wild bull in the garden. Though Department Store follows the perennial Rififi formula, Director Pierre Grimblat has wrapped up an ingenious package of Sennett slapstick, Gallic gaiety and bits of Yuletide foolery that deserves to outlast the tinsel and snow...