Word: regain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admitted losses, in general ("We have most certainly suffered losses . . . and we shall suffer more. . . . We Americans have been compelled to yield ground, but we will regain it") and-to correct "rumormongers" and "poison peddlers" for "damnable misstatements," gave the final score on Pearl Harbor in particular: killed, 2,340; wounded, 946. "Of all the combatant ships based on Pearl Harbor," added the President, "only three were permanently put out of commission...
Tomorrow's match will be essentially an attempt to regain face after the shutout suffered by the Varsity at the hands of Army last week. The Lions were able to take only one match from the Cadets in their meeting earlier in the season...
Fresh German troops were reported moving last week toward the Russian front, where Adolf Hitler was trying desperately to regain the initiative. The fact that Hitler had lost the initiative in Russia led many a cozy armchair strategist to forget that on most other actual or potential fronts the initiative was Hitler's or Japan...
Courses were started over again in January and April 1919 for those who had returned. That year there were two summer school sessions of six and five weeks respectively. These extra sessions enabled the students who had been absent to catch up in their work, and to regain time that had been taken up in fighting...
...Enemy snipers in trees and fox holes had stopped counterattack to regain part of position. In hand-to-hand fighting which followed, Lieut. Nininger repeatedly forced his way to and into the hostile position. Though exposed to heavy enemy fire, he continued to attack with rifle and hand grenades and succeeded in destroying several enemy groups in fox holes, and enemy snipers...