Word: regained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Came In From the Cold landed him on the publisher's all-star team, carries that strain of realism to its logical and dramatic conclusion. Taking up where he left off in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carre chronicles the efforts of a demoralized Secret Service to regain its reputation and, more important, its sense of self-respect, in the wake of its infiltration by a Soviet double agent. The task falls on the shoulders of George Smiley, typically a shrewd but atypically a paunchy and unglamorous secret agent. Moving to the offensive, Smiley assigns Jerry Westerby--dubbed "the honourable...
...Cowens knows as well as everyone else that there's no simple formula. The first step for the Celtics, though, is to find themselves and regain some team unity...
...emotions the stuff of tragedy, and the film's chief flaw is that it veers suddenly from the grim direction in which it seemed to be heading and brings all the CBers together in a reconciliatory effort to rescue the old man. The sequence is an obvious effort to regain the sympathy of the CB audience, showing them as socially useful citizens, but they?and everyone else?will have long since discerned the movie's true view of their world. The question is whether the rest of the world will care enough about this milieu to become good buddies with...
...following piece is drawn from a visit with a family on the Passamaquoddy Reservation on the Canadian border in Maine. The Passamaquoddy, along with the Penobscot tribe, are now suing to regain possession of more than half the land of the state of Maine...
...Wampanoag Indians in Mashpee, on Cape Cod, are now in court seeking to regain some of the land they lost to the white man centuries ago. Another group of Wampanoags on Cape Cod obtained some tribal land by concession from their town's government, and the Passamaquodies along with the Penobscot tribe are suing Maine for nearly half the state...