Word: regains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...questions, not conclusions. To a large extent the same attitude prevails among the people. One finds no unshakable faith or confidence that we and the world, once the war is won, are going to see that it does not happen again. . . ." John Foster Dulles called upon Christians to regain this faith. He said: "We have been a people of vision and self-confidence. Our founders . . . from the start conceived of their task as of worldwide import. Within a few generations there existed here an area of spiritual, intellectual and economic vigor the like of which the world had never seen...
Last week the Germans retaliated. In their first effort to regain a lost point on Europe's fringe, they launched an air and seaborne assault against tiny Cos and its excellent airfield. The Allies admitted the loss of several strongpoints on the island to the German counterattack. Field Marshal von Weichs was evidently determined to hold the outer ring of Balkan defenses and exact a good price for any Allied landings on the mainland. Other ring positions recently secured by the Germans: strategic Corfu at the entrance to the Adriatic, Cephalonia farther south in the Ionian Sea, and Albania...
...Congress went home in the heat-nerves and bodies strained and weary, judgments irritable and unsure. In months of grueling tug of war with the Executive, the Congress had tried to regain some of its old independence, and had partially succeeded...
...hills were peopled by sailors who had fought at Odessa and Sevastopol, and were now determined to regain the city below them. Day after day, German shells and bombs ploughed the hills, killed men, maimed their guns. But the sailors did not retreat, and their guns let no German ship enter the bay, no train reach the station. For 13 months the sailors stayed in the hills, and each day the rows of German crosses in the city parks grew longer...
Greece entered the war, not only to defend herself, but also to regain at the peace table Greek-inhabited territories...