Word: regains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell: "It is easy to say that the 50 trucks or the 200 engines which could not be produced against schedule this month can be made up next month, but a battlefield lost on Tuesday is difficult to regain on Wednesday...
...Biggest mass cancellations: Atlantic City, where 35 out of 47 leased hotels are being turned back to private use, and Miami Beach, which will regain 109 of the 325 resort hotels taken over last year...
...Courage Has Bread." By his exhortations, his purges, and by caging the most dangerous of his defectionists, Mussolini has used the threat of invasion to tighten his control over Italy. But despite an apparently growing attitude of rebellion against German domination, he has failed to regain the prestige he once held among those who thought he was un jurbo (an astute fellow), or among the trusting who believed that, regardless of his Party's corruption, Mussolini had the best interests of his people at heart. One story indicated the Italian's cynicism: The Duce was not satisfied with...
Another Enterprise "first" was her participation in the original attack on Guadalcanal, providing air cover for the first Marine landing parties. Seventeen days later she was back again to help when the Japs made their supreme bid to regain the island, sending a big task force with three or four carriers. Enterprise, another carrier and land-based Army and Marine bombers combined to turn the enemy back; aircraft from Enterprise shot down 30 Jap planes and sank...
Heaviest of the preparatory blows last week fell in the Kuban valley, where the Germans still fiercely defended a Caucasian bridgehead. This region could be the base for a summer offensive to regain all the ground that they had lost in the Caucasus...