Word: regains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also given to scandalous public poses as an overt homosexual and self-confessed drug user. But unlike Oscar Wilde, who tripped and fell into the gutter of Victorian reality while trying to walk his mystic way, Cocteau, for all of his histrionics and acrobatics, always managed to regain a safe perch. He was somehow able to have his cakewalking, eat his opium, and yet wind up a middle-class immortal, a member of that superrespectable college of venerables, the Académie Française...
...escalation. However, given the Administration's present assumptions, it is doubtful whether an American President can resist the pressures toward escalation while American troops are fighting and dying in South Vietnam. For de-escalation to be lasting, we must begin by de-escalation in our minds. We must regain some perspective on the whole question of China and of revolutionary wars. Because our analysis has shown that a victory of the guerrillas in South Vietnam would not undermine vital American interests, we advocate the expeditious withdrawal of American troops from the area. We recognize, of course, that this American withdrawal...
Despite his strong legal position, it is not at all clear that Powell can be helped by the courts in his struggle to regain his seat. Certainly Congressional precedent, although without the status of law, would have to be taken into account in any Supreme Court judgment. However, a confrontation between the highest judicial and legislative bodies in the nation would pose special difficulties...
...Prisoners should be allowed to sue to prevent "irreparable damage" in the years before their release. Ex-felons should regain property rights, "since such rights may be essential in order to live a normal life in the community...
Cheaper Loans. Still, builders, lenders and economists agree, with rare unanimity, that the ailing industry will regain its health by year's end. President Leon Weiner of the National Association of Home Builders last week predicted that a substantial upturn during the summer and fall will lift starts to a 1967 total of 1,300,000, as against 1,220,000 in 1966. Such optimism is based mainly on the Government's sharp switch toward easier credit. Interest rates on home mortgages have dropped faster than in any recent period in Federal Reserve records. Eastern investors who demanded...