Word: regaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disaster's Messengers. The Red Fleet, which now has a chance to regain domination of the Black Sea, is headed by an ancient 12,000-ton craft called a battleship 33 years ago. But it also includes five cruisers, 27 modern destroyers, 50 submarines, a flock of 60-ft. PTs, a small aircraft carrier (named Stalin...
...wants to indulge in his favorite sport of being Wrigley's largest stockholder. Though he told the other stockholders last week that he was "going into 1944 well worn down physically and with a consequent lack of enthusiasm and vigor," no one who knows him expects him to regain his health away from the business...
...hard-fighting New Zealand troops in the town. Although Castle Hill, just behind it, is in Allied hands, tricky terrain enabled the Germans to infiltrate through a ravine to the rear whenever New Zealanders attempted to attack Hill 165. The Germans in turn were frustrated in several attempts to regain Castle Hill...
...Napoleon was Europe's Hitler, the governments of Thomas ' Jefferson and Czar Alexander I had similar interests in opposing both British interference with neutral shipping and Napoleon's efforts to create a western European autarchy. When the Czar espoused the reactionary Holy Alliance, which planned to regain the rebellious South American colonies for Spain, the U.S. answered with the Monroe Doctrine...
This bit of propaganda, making use of an institution as British as mutton pie, followed Foreign Minister Molotov's announcement of wider autonomy for member states of the U.S.S.R. (TIME, Feb. 14). It also drove home the point that the Russians are determined to regain and keep the briefly free (1918-40) Baltic countries...