Word: regain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Counter Blow. When news of the Lahore uprising reached Prime Minister Nazimuddin in Karachi, he ordered 44-year-old Major General Mohammed Azam Khan, commander of the military cantonment outside Lahore, to move into the city and regain control. Ten thousand Pakistani troops put the city under martial law. Within six hours the revolution was over. The Red Cross counted 330 dead at first aid stations. Other dead, picked up and buried by relatives, probably raised the death toll to 1,000 or more...
...survey, which contacted over 56 percent of the Class of '56, boosted Adams from sixth place into second, and revealed that Lowell has captured over a quarter of the class, to regain first place. The Vote: 1953 1952 Lowell 25.8% 20.9% (2) Adams 17.8% 6.7% (6) Dunster 13.9% 15.9% (4) Winthrop 12.4% 16.9% (3) Eliot 12.3% 24.6% (1) Kirkland 9.9% 10.4% (5) Leverett 7.2% 4.3% (7) Claverly Hall .7% .3% (8) Total Number polled...
Eleven were arrested and a twelfth warrant was issued for one already in custody-Dr. Gustav Scheel, former Nazi Gauleiter for Salzburg, who was one of seven ex-Nazi bigwigs jailed by the British last month on charges of "plotting to regain power" in West Germany. Among those newly arrested are four of the known leaders of the Freikorps Deutschland, a semimilitary, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic and anti-Masonic organization that was formed in 1951. The jailed leaders: Hermann Lamp, an unreconstructed ex-SS sergeant; Helmuth Beck-Broichsitter, onetime major in the Grossdeutschland Division, who is also the chairman...
...into Persia is money thrown down a drain," and that the U.S. faces "the alternative of seeing Russia take over the whole of Persia or, if we are sufficiently farsighted, only the northern half." His urgent recommendation: "The U.S. should be prepared, if necessary, to occupy southern Persia and regain possession of [the Abadan oil refinery], preferably at the request of ... a Persian government sympathetic to the Western world." If Britain does not back the U.S., Childs says that the U.S. should act alone...
...with an expression of full confidence. In either case, Dulles, who has enough prestige with Congress to defend his department as Acheson could not, must not let political pressure replace diplomatic competence in the Foreign Service. By showing up the Department's confidence in itself he can help it regain the confidence of the public...