Word: regaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carrying 11,000 volts. Kilpatrick was savagely burned and lost consciousness. Doctors at the Emory hospital doubted that he would live and it was touch and go for weeks. With third-degree burns penetrating to the bones of his lower left leg and right foot, Kilpatrick mercifully did not regain full consciousness for two weeks. By then, Surgeon William C. McGarity had already amputated his left leg below the knee. His right foot seemed likely to be lost. It was also doubtful whether he might ever regain the use of his right hand...
...deficit was running $40 million a month, and all that stood between internally prosperous France and international bankruptcy was the remains (about $500 million) of the $650 million in foreign loans which the Gaillard government negotiated in Washington last January. Only by restricting its imports could France hope to regain solvency, and such action threatened to delay the creation of the six-nation Western Europe Common Market...
...convinced that in the clear light of events you will do your utmost to call back to their sense of duty those general officers or senior officers who have disobeyed their supreme commander . . . If you break all solidarity with those who have created a seditious movement, you will regain the confidence of the entire nation...
...events live up to their potential, the varsity could well regain the pre-eminence which it lost this season. A team with as much spirit and will as the varsity track team, and with a coach of McCurdy's mettle, rightly deserves as much...
...advertisers, threatening a "massive crusade" against stores advertising in the Gazette, the boycott has not cost the Gazette a line of advertising, and the paper's circulation is gradually rising again. Said Editor Ashmore, after winning his Pulitzer: "I am confident that in time the Gazette will regain the circulation it has lost, and will emerge from this ordeal stronger than ever...