Word: regained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spreading scandal created for the nation a crisis of confidence in its Government. An overwhelming majority of Americans re-elected Nixon in large part because he spoke so often of the need to regain respect for law, sternly administered and applied with equal severity to all. He assailed soft judges and Supreme Court decisions that enable criminals to go free on technicalities. Now his closest official associates are suspected of not only violating federal laws but also trying to subvert the judicial system to conceal their wrongdoing. One high Administration official was moved to an exaggerated lament...
Ignatius himself once said: "If the whole society should come to an end. it would take 15 minutes for me to regain my composure." Such a spirit of brusque and even self-abnegating
...will elect at large nine city councillors and six members to the School Committee (the seventh member is the Mayor, chosen by the councillors from among themselves). Independents are hoping to defeat the fractured coalition of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the city's liberal good-government organization, and regain control of the two legislative bodies. The CCA won a narrow and contested victory at the polls two years...
...Indian people, must be governed by principles in a democratic manner with a right to choose our way of life...What we ask of America is not charity, not paternalism...the Indians ask for assistance, technical and financial, for the time needed, however long that may be, to regain in the America of the space age some measure of the adjustment they enjoyed as the original possessors of their native land." In 1973, as an AIM slogan phrases it: "The Red Giant is on one knee, but he's getting ready to stand...
...kind of Gallic sex comedy set in turn-of-the-century Sweden. The characters are subliminal staples of theatrical lore, more familiar as types than sharply etched as individuals. The hero (Len Cariou) is a prosperous lawyer somewhat baffled and buffeted by middle age. Widowed, he has attempted to regain his lost youth by marrying a child bride (Victoria Mallory) who, after eleven months, is still skittishly virginal. Completing the household is Cariou's son (Mark Lambert) who has a jittery case of postadolescent puritanical guilt and an unholy crush on his stepmother. He, in turn, is pursued...