Word: reclaiming
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According to Golcher, the Salvadoran army has managed to reclaim from F.M.L.N. control an area that previously contained some 1,200 guerrillas. The territory was won without a heavy fight: the guerrillas in the area moved out before the troops arrived. This time, however, the Salvadoran army does not intend to go back to its barracks; it is going to stay. Says one of the U.S. Special Forces advisers who designed the campaign: "We're not stacking up bodies, but that's not the point. We are taking back terrain, clearing the area, getting lots of intelligence...
...very American: the kids going into business for themselves and wanting to define precisely what the terms of the enterprise are to be. Good luck. The self-made ceremony expresses a kind of romantic individualism (not to say, sometimes, narcissism) that wants to reclaim the event from its bloodless institutional routine and make it mean something wondrous and memorable. Marriage is, one thinks at the start, a long journey. The couple want a bright send-off at the station to think about during those interminable stretches later on, when the landscape becomes as featureless and wearying as the steppe...
...pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.'" The key words of many of Martin Luther King's speeches were taken from the vocabulary of America's Revolutionary War. As with the words that ended his famous speech at the March on Washington, "free at last," King sought to reclaim the old ideas for a nation divided by race as she had once been divided by loyalties to independence and allegiance to England...
...fullback Art Zarone has picked up 72 yards on 16 carries. Even starting quarterback Nate Sassaman has collected substantial yardage on the ground. going 62 yards on 16 carries. In addition, last year's starting fullback Warren Waldorff has recovered from an ankle injury and is expected to reclaim his position this afternoon...
James, 39, an analyst with San Francisco's Montgomery Securities, flew to Los Angeles for a trade screening of TRON, a $21 million innerspace fantasy with which the Disney organization hopes to reclaim its share of the movie marketplace. "Thirty-five minutes into the film/' he says, "the coughing started, and halfway through, people began to talk. This was a sympathetic audience that had turned apathetic. Walt Disney used to tell his people, 'Start with a story, then make the movie.' This time they got it backward." The next morning, through Montgomery's 30 traders...