Word: regains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Nicholas Horthy, Regent of Hungary, and his clique of aristocratic Magyar officials had long sought to regain for their country some of its vanished power and glory. From the ceiling-high windows of their brownstone government building in Pest they surveyed Buda spread out in a quiet arc. They looked down the sluggish Danube, past the austere statue of their patron, Saint Stephen, and felt themselves ordained and inevitable monarchs of all they saw and all they could take...
Distinguished Service Cross, or Navy Cross. Army, 252; Navy, 522; Marines, 107; Coast Guard, 1. Sample case: Sergeant LeRoy C. Anderson, first selectee so honored, for destroying Japanese machine-gun nests on Bataan by leading a small group of tanks against them, thus enabling the American forces to regain the lost positions...
...Chappell's conclusion: If the amount of sponsors' products sold is any indication, the daytime serial is "just about the greatest molder of attitudes, beliefs, ideas, convictions and behavior of women that we have in our society. . . ." But if the 60-odd daily soap operas hope to regain and increase their popularity, they will have to find a new formula...
...wholly American products. Each of the synthetics is superior to natural rubber in at least one respect and for at least one use. Yet none claims to be perfect. Each will improve with further research, and ought to supersede natural rubber in its special field. Rubber itself may never regain its pre-war place, may join natural dyes, lacquers, resins, and perhaps silk in limbo...
...spring of 1943. . . . The enemy, from Rhodes in the Mediterranean to the vital inner Aegean bases, is probably more vulnerable to Allied sea and air attacks than since . . . the spring of 1941. . . . Informed sources . . . talk confidently of the spring of 1943 as the time of the Allied blow to regain Aegean footholds as jumping-off places for an invasion of the Balkans...