Word: regaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began midsummer 1944 as a dream in the mind of Adolf Hitler. By late autumn, Wehrmacht planners had transformed the dream into battle orders. Hitler proposed to regain the offensive by deploying Germany's last reserves to smash through a lightly held sector of the Belgian front. His panzers would entrap as many as 30 U.S. and British divisions, capture the strategic supply port of Antwerp, and perhaps end the war in the West with a negotiated peace. Hitler thought of it as another Dunkirk and code-named it "Wacht am Rhein [Watch on the Rhine]." Allied archives would...
...among the rich, joining malaise to brilliant cultivation, typifies a dying upper class that feels no threat in extinction. Their easy lives far from the masses, and their resulting freedom and complexity of personality, allow humor and leisurely pacing parts in Lang's subtle character delincations that they never regain...
...really had the stage on fire: it was really smoldering!" Donnally Miller, one of the cast members. said after the play. The actors never were able to regain their composure on stage and laughed through their lines for the last ten minutes of the play. At the end. a speech by an old man saying, "it's a bad night to set fire to this place" left the audience laughing. A final improvised line starting, "I don't smoke; I only start fires." ended the play on a much more comic note than if it had continued normally...
...Corporation approves yesterday's Soc Rel recommendation, Stauder will regain the appointment for 1970-71 which the Soc Rel department originally recommended him for before last April's disruption...
After giving their blood- which takes about five minutes- donors are required to rest for fifteen minutes to regain their strength before leaving Memorial Hall. They are instructed not to smoke for 30 minutes and to drink lots of liquids for several days...