Word: reclaiming
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Hundreds of deed holders who fled the war's devastation are sure to return in coming months to reclaim their property. They will find, in most cases, that squatters who braved the fighting to cultivate the soil now consider themselves not claim jumpers but valiant pioneers. The Salvadoran government has a small reserve of land earmarked for redistribution, which may help a few. But not all the disputes can be solved that simply, and some are certain to lead to violence...
...with taboos that writers find difficult to approach, whether it's rediscovering [in The Poet's Bible] that there were writers of the Bible, which is a major taboo--the taboo that there really were men and women who wrote that...[it's the] same thing as trying to reclaim these memories of an overwhelming experience...
...pollution and degradation of this culture did not happen overnight, and neither will our ability to reclaim it and reform it happen overnight. It's going to take a good half-generation to turn things around. The church for two full generations has been taking its brightest and its best and saying to them, Be a pastor or be a missionary. It's time we took our brightest and our best and said, Be a lawyer, be a judge, be a Governor, be the dean of a university, be the editor of a newspaper. We're involved in a cultural...
...last Jews depart from Seville harbors the day before he set out on his first journey west. He viewed this concatenation of events as a sign of the world's fulfillment, and predicted that the gold he brought back would finance an ultimate Crusade to reclaim the Holy Land...
...raised a mighty fuss; only one copy of the manuscript existed, she said, and this she kept on the third floor of her house, far from the milling buyers in the yard. The magazine dropped the project, but not before Howar spent $16,000 in legal fees to reclaim her work...