Word: reclaiming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chilean economist, el BID has granted longterm, low-interest loans for hydroelectric power in such marginal-risk areas as Guatemala and Paraguay. About 35% of its loans are for agricultural projects, which often get a cool reception from international bankers. Last year the Mexican government received $30.5 million to reclaim and settle 130,000 desolate acres in the southeastern state of Tabasco, while Venezuela and the Dominican Republic got $6,000,000 apiece to build up cattle herds...
...luckless farmers: Burnt Crop Creek, because they had watched the stalks of cotton and even of corn wither in the sun, and heard the heavy winds rattle through the hone dry fields like seeds ticking in a gourd. They merely quit the land, leaving that fractious patient stream to reclaim its banks. Another generation arose, their birthright of planting cancelled: they went through the forest and chalked the highest hardwoods. Not long after the oxen in jangling chains shafted road and tore the earth as they pulled the felled trunks to the water.... But the stream endured that...
...America must have a choice, and freedom must have a chance. Republican principles, Republican candidacies offer the choice, give the chance and reaffirm the right of the people of this God-blessed nation to reclaim the powers they are losing, to rededicate the will they are wasting, and to win the peace for which they are praying...
...less than a month Harvard and Radcliffe people who have enjoyed a summer of apartment living, free of the inconvenience of University rules, will return to Cambridge in droves to reclaim the Yard and the Houses...
Many old Bavarian families stubbornly resisted the Nazis and were singled out for persecution by Hitler; after the war, they were able to reclaim their confiscated holdings intact, and ever since have managed to keep the boar from the door with conspicuous success. One of their liveliest members is handsome Prince "Alfie" Auersperg, who was down to his last Schloss a few years ago; today he boasts a priceless collection of French paintings and a U.S. heiress for a wife. Because the Bavarian aristocrats have traditionally been less exclusive than Prussia's patricians, Munich today is one city...