Word: recouping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call, and the parade ground was a half mile away. Dashing down stairs, he began an awkward jog up the street, puffing under the weight of his overcoat. By the time he reached the Square, a trickle of perspiration was wetting his starched shirt collar, and Vag slowed to recoup his breath...
...spite of his pain ("Oh, I can't stand it! I must die! I must go!" he once cried), the ex-President seemed to have one final ambition at McGregor: to recoup his family's fortune by completing his memoirs.* On sunny days, supported by his black cane ("I scarcely ever use my cane in going about my room," says one note. "Often when I go out, I have to look about for it to find it"), he would struggle out of the house to sit for hours on his porch, poring over his work. Though weak...
...story is a play of ironies. Cinqué arrived home to find his village burned, his family sold into slavery. Wise now in the white man's ways but primitive as ever in his ethics, the black apostle of freedom turned slave runner to recoup his fortunes. He died old and famous in his country, and was buried, by his deathbed wish, in the cemetery of the little mission...
...teau de Mainténiac, Pierre was the scourge of the neighborhood-borrowing the tenants' farm horses to race across country, frightening the villagers of nearby Préchâtel by roaring through their marketplace in his racing car. He frittered away a fortune and tried to recoup by smuggling, but fell afoul of the law and paid a heavy fine. He carried off the family treasures to pawn or sell. Once he was reduced to selling lollipops to vacationing suckers at a seaside resort...
...reason why they don't, we are told, is down-on-her-luck musical comedy actress, played, no less, by Uta Hagen in blonde hair and blue silk pajamas. In the course of her efforts to break into the Italian cinema and recoup her fortune, Miss Hagen collects her coteric--an estranged husband, a secretary, and a dimwitted Southerner by the name of Beansy--all of whom, with the aid of their respective Latin admirers, carry the ball of repartee for the better part of the show. With the material at hand, it is an Olympian task...