Word: regain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week most of the farmers in the district had done the same, despite the organized holders' Farm Association warning that all such individually signed agreements were void. The farmers were all but bankrupt. The valley workers had lost more in crop shares than they could hope to regain in years of unremitting effort with hoe and spade. But the Communists had won their strike and reaped their harvest of hate. Crowed the Italian party organ Unita: "We have entered a new phase of major labor warfare...
...sprints, with both of the varsity Yardling eights expected to figure prominently in the final results. The Crimson heavies lost their first race of the season to Navy last Saturday and are now rated below Yale, Cornell, and the Middies. Coach Bill Leavitt's eight should be able to regain its early season form, however, and give Yale's strong crew a fight in this race...
...strongman's second-term ambitions, the Roman Catholic Church under Crisanto Cardinal Luque, the newly united Liberal and Conservative Parties and the belligerent university students took direct action. Caught by surprise, the President hesitated. Then he moved what he said were 35,000 troops into Bogotá to regain control...
Opposed to Jordan's continued existence, Nabulsi and his Palestinians set great store instead by Arab unity, believing that only through a strong, unified Arab nation could they regain their lost homes in Israel. Their ambitions reflected a natural loyalty to their land; the Communists rushed in to exploit it unnaturally, identifying the West as the cause of all their troubles, for having thrust the State of Israel into their midst. Shortly before Israel invaded Sinai, Jordan united its armed forces with Syria's and Egypt's, thereby ringing Israel, under the supreme command of an Egyptian...
...coming up, what Adenauer wanted-and what he got-was public confirmation that, no matter what his Socialist opponents might say, Russia is far less interested in German reunification on any terms than it is in preserving the status quo in Europe, so as to give itself time to regain its hold on the satellites...