Word: regains
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Every Israeli (and American) analysis before October 1973 agreed that Egypt and Syria lacked the capability to regain their territory by force of arms; hence it was assumed they would not attack. The premises were correct. The conclusions were not. What literally no one understood beforehand was the mind of Anwar Sadat. In his view, serious diplomacy was impossible while Israel considered itself militarily supreme and Egypt was paralyzed by humiliation. In 1972 he expelled Soviet troops from his country because of the disrespect shown by Soviet leaders toward Egyptians but above all because they would surely seek to impede...
...authorities recently removed an inscription from a wall behind the towering monument to workers killed in the 1970 uprising. It read: "They died so that you could live in dignity." Effacing those words will not destroy the memory of the Gdansk martyrs, or the determination of the survivors to regain their lost dignity. - By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Richard Homik/ Warsaw and Wilton Wynn/Rome
...team will have a chance to regain its composure when it faces the same 10 NCAA Division I squads at the Williams College Carnival next week at Brodie Mountain in western Massachusetts...
Because of financial difficulties-- brought on by inflation and decreasing endowments--the research activities of the allied institutions have decreased significantly, Solbrig and Dowling said. All members of the Organismic Division hope that the institutions can come closer to the University and regain some of their former research momentum...
...seeds of federalism. But the notion was seized upon last November by those shaping the State of the Union message, in part because it was fine political strategy. Reagan badly needed a vehicle to avoid dwelling on the depressing but pressing problems of budget deficits and unemployment and to regain domination of the political debate. The White House, therefore, beefed up the federalism idea to give the second-act curtain raiser of the Reagan presidency a show-stopping wallop. Says one adviser: "We thought of it as another go-for-broke idea, a big idea, another way in which Reagan...