Word: recouped
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...period just after any diplomatic victory is frequently the most precarious. The victor is tempted to turn the screw one time too many; the loser, rubbed raw by the humiliation of his defeat, may be so eager to recoup that he suddenly abandons rational calculation...
...week of bad news, the Ayatullah's government hoped to recoup, psychologically at least, by claiming a massive turnout in the country's third presidential election. Though results will not be official until midweek, it was a foregone conclusion that the Islamic republic's third President would be the clerics' approved candidate: Hojjatoleslam Ali Khamene'i, 42, a Majlis (parliament) representative still partly paralyzed from the explosion of a Mujahedin-planted bomb last June...
...Africa Conference tries to recoup and regroup...
Hoping to recoup and regroup, the A.A.C.C. last January turned...
...creditors in exchange for his Indian paintings and artifacts. Harrison shipped the collection back to Philadelphia, where it was stowed in the basement of his boiler factory for 27 years. Catlin spent ten of those years in a small apartment in Brussels, living as a recluse and trying to recoup his fortunes with new trips to South America and to the Indian country west of the Rockies...