Word: reconquest
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KEFAUVER: "If [your chief of staff] had written to me, knowing that I was in a big debate in Congress about whether you were right in deciding how you were going to make that magnificent reconquest,of the Philippines . . . and criticizing even mildly what you had decided to do ... would you have sanctioned him doing...
...roads in the Southwest led to old Santa Fe this week. There in the warm nights around the Palace of the Governors, the city was holding its 237-year-old fiesta, to celebrate the reconquest of the Indians by the Spanish. The fiesta would open, as it always does, with the burning of Zozobra, a 40-ft. effigy with a face of abysmal discontent (see cut). Zozobra, in Santa Fe folklore, represented Old Man Gloom...
...keep Argentines from noticing Peronista political shenanigans, the government had whooped up the annual celebration of the reconquest of Buenos Aires from the British in 1806. There were parades and solemn ceremonies in the Plaza de Mayo, and symbolic torches were rushed to every corner of the country. But there were no torches to light the last hours of the parliamentary system that generations of Argentines had struggled to maintain...
...well adapted to the making of westerns, but there is no reason why we should not have a shot at it. As for tremendously bad films about the lives of celebrated musicians, we can turn them out at a pinch, and it may even prove possible to show the reconquest of Burma without enlisting the services of Mr. Errol Flynn...
Each in their own way, the Indians, Indo-Chinese and Indonesians were asking of the victorious Allies: "Is it a reconquest or truly a liberation?" The Chinese, freed at long last from Japanese shackles, struggled through civil war toward their destiny as a great modern nation...