Word: reclaiming
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...exiled Catholic King of England, James II, landed in Ireland to fight to reclaim his throne from William of Orange. But James failed to take Londonderry, despite a 105-day siege, and the following year, at the Battle of the Boyne, he was finally defeated and fled to France. By 1700 the Catholics owned only one-seventh of their own soil...
...editorial in last Tuesday's paper had called for a party on the People's Park site to commemorate the second anniversary of the university's use of national guardsmen and police to reclaim the park. The editorial read in part: "For two years our boycott of the park has stood witness to the blood that flowed there. It is time we honored that blood with action-we must take back the park...
...What we're trying to do is make clear that the long winter is coming to an end, that we will reclaim the whole political process as a vehicle for social change," Lowenstein says. "We have to fill the technical vacuum of how to mobilize people against the war. This will ideally build pressure in Congress for McGovern-Hatfield, for a date-certain, and prevent wilder tactics...
...ISSUE of black citizenship occasioned in the Fourteenth Amendment the instrument through which government completed its self-disqualification from competence in religion. The issue of first-class black citizenship possibly occasioned, through the instrumentality of the late 1950s and early 1960s, the beginning of the church's move to reclaim the civil order. When Martin Luther King took to the streets in 1956 to challenge laws of the land, and when masses followed him, and when clergy followed the masses, the new "activist church" entered the headlines and the separated civil and religious orders in America moved from a substantially...
...familiar faces will be making their first starts of the season in the backfield this afternoon. Harrison returns to halfback from flanker and senator Tom Miller has come off an injury to reclaim his fullback spot from sophomore Steve Hall...