Word: recoup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy and said: "This is the first time Jack Kennedy ever lost anything." The fact of defeat was jolting, and the President showed it. In the weeks that followed, he seemed unsure of himself and willing to attempt almost anything that, by any conceivable stretch of the imagination, might recoup the B.C. position. He even got himself involved in the ill-advised attempt to trade U.S. tractors off for captured Cuban rebels...
...Interior General Alevi Moghadan, 57; last week eight Majlis Deputies broke all the windows of his home in their rage over the fact that after they had paid the customary fee to General Moghadan to win election, Parliament had been dissolved before they had a chance to recoup their investment...
...Government and planemakers will decide on one design for the Mach 3; the Government will then let contracts to one or more planemakers and share the burden of the development costs. President Kennedy has asked Congress for $12 million to get the program started, and the Government may recoup at least a part of its investment by collecting a royalty on each plane. Planemakers estimate that the new craft will sell to the airlines for from $12 million to $25 million, depending on the number of manufacturers involved. (A Boeing 707 costs $6.1 million...
Still, it's a great show for what the Disney organization has called "the under-twelve sector," and even though it runs long enough (2 hrs. 6 min.) to make the over-twelve sector squirm. Family seems likely to recoup most of Disney's 1960 losses: $1,500,000. The tigers are pretty, the boa is a swallowpaloosa, the tree house is a little boy's daydream. And the violent, ludicrous last-reel battle with the pirates is a grand display of blow-the-man-downmanship-a regular Donald Duck comedy in live action...
Bonus for Scoops. Clearly outpaced in performance and ratings by NBC at Los Angeles, CBS pulled out all stops to recoup in Chicago. Its oracles tried to capture some of the colloquial ease that made NBC's Huntley and Brinkley outstanding; when President Eisenhower entered the Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel, his face spattered with confetti, Ed Murrow observed: "It looks like the President is trying to blast his way out of a sand trap." But Murrow as a humorist simply was not convincing. CBS also threw in extra cameras, rigged up arc lights, offered its reporters bonuses for scoops. When...