Word: regain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult to imagine that the Chinese ambassador in Moscow would then be summoned by Molotov and politely reminded that the Soviet Union has a mutual-assistance pact with the "People's Republic of Outer Mongolia." Therefore if the Chinese Government should attempt by arms to regain its province of Manchuria, and Outer Mongolia should go to the assistance of the "People's Republic of Manchuria," the Soviet Union under its pact with Outer Mongolia regretfully would be obliged to use force to prevent the Chinese Government from inflicting injury on the forces of Outer Mongolia . . . the Chinese Government...
...likely that the Soviet Union, ill recovered from the terrible blows of war . . . does not wish a test of arms in the immediate future.... It is therefore essential that the French Communists now keep and increase their strength with the voters, hold to their posts in the administration and regain their place in the Government. . . . A policy of sabotage . . . is essential [for them] to keep France in a state of revolutionary tension...
Streptomycin was on the way last night from the American Red Cross to William Ellis '44, lying ill with pneumonia and pleurisy in a Prague hospital in the hope that the rare drug might help him regain his health...
While International, national, and Florida storms raged, the former mayor of New York City, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, lying quietly ill in New York as the result of an operation last June, was reported at midnight as "slightly worse" and "not expected to regain full consciousness...
...designers fell to this job with a will, they were ably abetted by Paris. There the brasshats of fashion, indifferent as always to the wishes or even the shapes of their subjects, panted to regain the attention, if not the prestige, which they had lost during the war. Almost before anyone could say haute couture, such Parisian newcomers as Christian Dior were making a great to-do about squeezing waists into wasp lines and padding out hips-and the revolution...