Word: renewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showers and light snows. To the dry-skinned farmers and ranchers who have been sitting out a searing drought for as long as eight years, the kiss of moisture on the crumbling land stirred a pulse-pounding flicker of hope; now, perhaps, seasonal rains would soak the ravaged soil, renew the empty springs. Last week the hoped-for moisture came. But it was a bitter draught...
Next day Harding and the government reached a compromise. The government would accept the recent offer of NATO's Secretary-General Lord Ismay to undertake conciliation of the Cyprus dispute among Greece. Turkey and Britain. They also agreed to renew their offer to free Makarios (but not to return him to Cyprus), provided he publicly called on EOKA to cease all violence. But, at Harding's insistence, the government agreed to make no mention of negotiating with him, now or ever...
...could forget our low marks and miserable social life if we could get to Yale and buy a genuine tweed jacket, a pipe, and a superior attitude. Not only that, but the professor who made the suggestion said we could "renew old high school friendships," which would be marvelous especially since we've avoided them for some time now. But we're told that Yale is a friendly school where people talk to each other or if they don't they can exchange knowing looks...
...said, it would offer the Harvard student "the stimulation of more companionship" than he is accustomed to in the apparently less friendly environs of Cambridge. Other advantages of the plan mentioned by Weiss were the "different attitude at Yale toward sports and extra-curricular activities," and "the chance to renew old high school friendships...
...Europe and America can mutually benefit each other. Europe can lend us its experience and caution, and the U.S. can renew for Europe the hope and optimism vital to progress. "Europe can teach America only how to learn; America can teach Europe how to believe," claims d'Entreves...