Word: regain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...produce a constructive plan of disarmament, America must first regain its will to survive, Gerald J. Holton, associate professor of Physics, told a United Nations Council forum last night...
Oberon's plot: to regain his wife, Oberon, King of the Elves, scours the earth to find a faithful couple. He finds a brave knight and his beloved who are shipwrecked escaping from Bagdad; she is captured by pirates, pursued by a sultan, rescued by her knight, and finally blessed by Charlemagne. Oberon, of course, turns up at every crucial moment to rescue his charges...
Eisenhower has said again and again that he does not want to dictate to Congress. He thinks it should regain its proper place in U.S. political life after the years in which F.D.R. used Congress as a rubber stamp and the years of bitter deadlock be tween Capitol Hill and Harry Truman...
...Brown junior Ray Malkiewicz, who totaled 18 for the game, took over when Tooley's scoring tapered off, and helped his teammates regain a slight advantage, 53 to 50, by the end of the period...
After Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh offered his services to the Air Corps, saying "Now that war has come, we must meet it as united Americans, regardless of our attitude in the past." He was told that his statement was "not enough." that in order to regain his commission he would have to take back everything he had said in the past. Lindbergh refused, went to work as a civilian consultant to the Ford Motor Co. and United Aircraft, helped in the design of the Navy's Corsair. In 1944 he went to the Pacific as a civilian technician...