Word: regained
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...spearcarrier for this year's team will once again be senior captain Alex "Ajax" Vik, who has had dibs on the number one position since his freshman year. Vik will try to regain the Ivy League individual title that was wrested away from him last year by Yale's Peter Teravainen in what emerged as one of the most furious two-man assaults on par in the annals of Ivy golfing. Both the Ivy Championship and the NCAA Division One tournament will be played over the venerable and illustrious Yale Golf Club this year...
...himself, and that is somehow very appropriate. Carrie Snodgrass, in her first appearance since Diary of a Mad Housewife, walks off with the movie, and if she can bring this much warmth and humanity to The Fury, with those drawn cheekbones and kitty-cat voice, then she stands to regain her former stature as one of our most promising cinematic actresses...
...hibernation, this time it is THE season for Harvard baseball. It's a team that graduated one letterman and lost two others to pro baseball from last year's turn-around extravaganza that was engineered primarily by freshmen. Mostly though, it's a squad that seems primed to finally regain control of Eastern collegiate baseball, which the Crimson enjoyed in the early...
...François Mitterrand, whose Common Program with the Communists he likened to Dr. Faust's pact with the devil. Said Barre in the city of Caen: "Monsieur Mitterrand has played with fire, and now he is beginning to burn. He signed a pact, as Faust did, to regain his youth. Now the day of reckoning has arrived...
Floyd Patterson, 43, gained the championship by winning a tournament after Marciano retired in 1956. Patterson lost the title to Ingemar Johansson in 1959 and then won it back in 1960, making him the first man ever to regain the championship. After two first-round knockouts by Sonny Liston, he retired in 1972. Patterson now operates an amateur boxing club and is New York's acting athletic commissioner. After he lost his title, Patterson was so humiliated that he sometimes wore disguises. Now he says: "What I've been looking for throughout my whole life I have found...