Word: regaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next year Graney will be captain of the team that expects to regain the Ivy League hockey crown for Harvard. Because of the very strong freshman team this season, sophomores probably will play in several key positions, with Graney perhaps the team's only senior...
...Barry Goldwater of Arizona, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, said a recent survey of political prospects indicates it will be "very difficult for us to regain control of the Senate...
...Cupper Raul Karman, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Karman, whose beautiful crosscourt backhand returns gave Weld a lot of trouble in the opening games, let up just a bit after winning the first set, and that was all the Crimson captain needed. The Tech star was unable to regain his touch, while Weld, who had started slowly grew stronger and stronger. In the final set, he broke Karman's service at love in the sixth game to lead by 4-2, and when Karman pulled up to 5-4, Weld broke service again to win the match...
Simultaneously with his statement that the revolt was spreading, President Chiang Kai-shek offered Tibet independence if the Chinese Nationalists regain control of the China mainland...
...your Feb. 9 article on my book, The Privilege Was Mine: I should be very happy indeed with your review, had you not reproached me for Russian nationalism. My greatest wish is to see Hungary, Poland, etc., regain their independence, but neither in Moscow during the Budapest uprisal, nor afterward was I optimistic enough to believe that the Soviets would surrender (without a new World War) a system on which they think reposes their very existence. Who could expect the masters of the Kremlin to act differently in this crisis...