Word: recoup
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Ruth has done a one-night stand with Wagner in a London hotel and develops a fierce unrequited crush on Milne. She is, it seems, a romantic manquée who cannot recoup in sex what she has lost in love. While Rigg delivers all of Ruth's crisp-edged lines with hilarious asperity the feminine vulnerability of the role eludes her until she hears that Milne ha been machine-gunned to death. Then she rages in grief, waving a newspaper and asking what page in it was worth that price...
...Crimson received an early setback when Brown laced a bomb to Horner, who was all by himself in the endzone, but the normally sure-handed receiver dropped the ball. Harvard was able to recoup quickly, however, as Brown then hit Sablock over the middle at the eight to make it first-and-goal...
...court hears the case, The Times might try to recoup the fines it has paid, totaling...
Yesterday's win may have comforted some Red Sox spirits, but the question now is can the Sox awaken from their horrifying daze and recoup to last out a pennant drive...
...case of sour grappa? Possibly. The figures paid for books are impressive, but to recoup a multimillion-dollar investment today, paperback publishers must tout their products like new cars. Record-sale publicity is one way. And, of course, there are gimmicks and advertising blitzes for the soon-to-be-made-into-a-major-motion-picture that augment the hard-sell paperback commercials on radio...