Word: regain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...streets, discredited old Mullah Kashani, a dormant demagogue seeking to regain his popularity, proclaimed a "day of mourning" and ordered his fanatics to don black arm bands in protest at the recognition of Britain. Only about 50 followers showed up next day in Teheran's bazaar, chanting "Down with Britain." At Teheran University, students rioted, and two were killed by troops...
...Robert M. Ganger, 49, who left the advertising firm of Geyer, Newell & Ganger and became president of P. Lorillard Co. (Old Gold, Kent) in 1950, then resigned to "regain his health" last May (TIME, May 11), went back into the advertising business as chairman of the board of St. Louis' D'Arcy Advertising Co., 16th biggest U.S. ad company. ¶ Marlin G. Geiger, 56, was elected president of the Davison Chemical Corp. to succeed R. L. Hockley, who resigned to become vice president of Mathieson Chemical Corp. Educated as a chemical engineer, Geiger was a vice president...
...wile. As a boy, he was made by his father to ride bareback and walk the blistering desert rocks barefoot each midday to toughen himself for a career of revenge against the enemies of his line. At 20, he set out at the head of his Wahabi tribesmen to regain the sand and oases that had been wrested from his illustrious forebears, the Sauds, by the House of Rashid...
...counter-charge. "Communistic," cried the politicians, "dictatorial." When the local Communist party came out against this new plan the politicians were forced to change their line of attack. It was the deceitful and covert means, they said, whereby the "Harvard-Brattle Street-Money-Taxpayer-Republican" forces hoped to regain control of the city. The battle even featured a resolution by the City Council that Harvard be expelled from Cambridge and incorporated as a university city...
Serhant, who had been in a coma since he was discovered in his parked automobile Wednesday night, did regain consciousness for just a few moments yesterday. The Dunster House sophomore was not able to answer doctors' questions, however...