Word: reopening
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...Reno, which had dutifully outlawed prostitution during the war at the Army's request, authorized brothels to reopen once more with the full protection...
...tried to stake out claims in the no-man's-lands between front lines. Each side would be entitled to stand fast on what it held for the month of peace-if it lasted that long. The most important pre-truce drive was an unsuccessful Israeli effort to reopen the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Anticipating failure, the Jews had hacked a primitive trail through the hills south of the main road. There mule trains, jeeps, and slogging men kept a trickle of supplies flowing into Jerusalem. A Jewish commander called it "our Burma Road...
Dusty Plain. Israel's fighting men were desperately trying to reopen the lifeline road. Last week they attacked near Latrun, where commanding hills suddenly rise from the rocky plain. Near by is the Ajalon Valley, where Joshua commanded the sun to stand still until the Israelites "had avenged themselves upon their enemies." Last week the moon was not so obliging. Haganah fighters, who are used to night battles, had attacked in its light. But heavy Arab fire stopped them. The morning sun found Jews still in the dusty plain, firing from the cover of rocks...
...When they left, Priest Archaka closed the inner precincts and began cleaning up after the Mountbattens. He washed down the black stone idol with water and then with milk, chanted prayers in the oldtime purification ceremony. Irritated, the Mysore government ordered the conservative Archaka to suspend the ceremony and reopen the temple. The Governor General was thus implicitly raised at least to the new level of the Untouchables...
...five years could possibly be injurious in the very ways mentioned above. A time limit would act as a spur for future staffs, and a vote at the end of five years might either be a vote of confidence renewing the time lease or a hearty condemnation which would reopen all of today's arguments. A term less than five years can only be nerve-wracking for any editor who knows that an annual vote has the power to determine whether the college shall have a paper for an other two terms...