Word: regain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity tennis team capped its Joint European tour with Yale by defeating a combined Cambridge-Oxford squad, 6 to 4, at Wimbledon to regain the Prentice Cup. The three Crimson players making the trip were Ham Gravem, Steve Gottlieb and Brooks Harris. Gravem and Gottlieb were among the four American players gaining singles wins in the cup matches...
...arts of diplomacy and negotiation. Let's concentrate less on atomic power. Keep it in the background. Let's not allow our ordinary military power to go down, but let's concentrate as we have never concentrated before on the ways by which we can regain the friendship of statesmen and people who have been drifting away from us. And let's negotiate with the Communists, with the assurance that we have more strength both economically and spiritually than they have, and more to offer to the peoples of the world...
...postwar fortune. But while German output rose 50% in four years, wages have risen only 21%. German trade unions had been persuaded to accept thin pay packets as their contribution to the Fatherland's recovery, having been told that wages had to be kept low in order to regain the export markets. In addition, unemployment, fed by ten million refugees from Communism, made a man think twice before risking his job. The result was bad for all Germans: many German workers cannot afford to buy the goods they produce for export. Only 2% of the 20,000 workers assembling...
...became sports editor of the Houston Press. It was not till early in World War II, when he saw a planeload of wounded soldiers from overseas arriving at a hospital, that he became interested in professional good works. Anderson was so shaken that he decided to help them regain their health through sports...
...supporters of this theory is Professor Rudolf Drost of the Helgoland Ornithological Institute. During the war he saw flocks of birds fly "turbulently" when hit by radar beams. Crows disconcerted in this way took several minutes to regain flyability...