Word: regains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which they can still scrape a nugget or two for themselves, It will interest only those who think of the United States as their land - a land they know and love - a land that became rich through the industry, thrift, and enterprise of its people, and will never regain its prosperity in any other...
...also from front-line fighters who could not help but be amazed when they read: Fifth Army Cracks Gothic Line Defenses." Rivers & Rain. While the controversy stirred the rear, G.Ls in the front struggled patiently with the tenacious Ger mans. The Americans fell back before a counterattack, riposted to regain lost ground and more. By week's end, Raticosa Pass was captured, the Fifth was over the crest of the mountains, could at last look down at Bologna 20 miles away...
...July had driven the last German from Russian soil, ended the Battle of Russia, whittled down the German armies in the east. It had pushed the German remnants back to the upper Vistula, to a line in front of Warsaw and East Prussia before giving them a chance to regain their balance. Now this line, which the Germans bragged they had stabilized, was regarded by the Reds as the starting line for their autumn offensive in the Battle of Germany. They were bringing up new, massive equipment with which they intended...
...probably knows from of old more about Italy and the rest of Europe than any of her competitors. Revisiting many an old friend, she has found Italians hungry ("For the first time in Rome an American feels a little uncomfortable before the hungry eyes of the inhabitants"), eager to regain self-respect and self-government, but resigned to paying "in humiliation, impoverishment and a long status of probation for fatal mistakes of fascist policy...
...lonely, gets drunk and picks up a sleazy, drawling streetwalker whom he takes home for the night. The pair is discovered eating breakfast the next morning by Katherine, who returns earlier than expected. The remainder of the play concorns Katherine's efforts to incite her husband's jealousy and regain his love by inviting three ex-beaus to the house for the weekend...