Word: regain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evidence," so to speak, and aided their own government by furnishing all the information they had about the Communist infiltration movement. Alger Hiss should be left to make his volun tary atonement for his crime, but, if he chooses to remain silent altogether, he will not soon regain, even among his friends, some of the esteem he once...
Germany, he said, might in the future undertake some chauvinistic demonstration against Poland, to regain her lost territories, which would upset the apple-cart. He said this is because Germany has a tradition of reverting to extreme nationalism in times of economic stress which is not encouraging. He did not, however, foresee an early overturn of the Adenauer government...
Last week, brought back from the brink of the grave by the teamwork of 15 doctors and countless corpsmen, Kirn navigated his first unaided steps down a Bethesda corridor. Most Guillain-Barré victims, if they survive the first critical weeks, regain full use of their muscles. But not many have such a long and arduous way to come back as Bullet Lou Kirn. It had taken him three months even to wiggle his fingers and toes. Now, on a Spartan daily schedule which includes "walks" in the swimming pool, typing to exercise his fingers, pulling on a block...
...potential were the mark of a good magazine, the Lampoon would at last satisfy the critics who monthly expect the publication finally to regain its legendary glory. For in the current issue J. F. Fletcher and cartoonists L. Draper Hill and P. M. Herrera display the talent necessary to revive an all-too dusty tradition of humor. But potential is not always interesting or amusing, and neither is the current issue...
...pretty envious of Charlie's lot, but even more disapproving. He so sprays the atmosphere with the idea of matrimony that Charlie becomes engaged to two girls at once; a little later Boy loses Girls; thereafter, the big question of the evening is which one will he regain...