Word: retaken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case was complicated by another Jewish war orphan: Betty Meljado, whose Protestant foster mother had sent her to a Catholic school, had also disappeared when the authorities sought to transfer her to a Jewish family. In a series of adventures like a Hitchcock movie, she had been seized, kidnaped, retaken, and kidnaped again-once in a car driven by an ex-priest, who was trying to keep the child from the Jewish family...
Happy Birthday." The strongman fell with dramatic suddenness. As the fateful week opened, the government propaganda machine was still repetitiously insisting that the rebellion was about to collapse, that loyalist troops had retaken the rebel stronghold of Córdoba. But Peron's government, not the rebellion, was about to collapse...
...troops all too often panicked and ran. Nonetheless, all troops fought well enough to bring the Japanese to a dead stop on Bataan in the last week of February 1942. One high-ranking Japanese officer later admitted that a U.S. counterattack could have pushed through the Japanese lines and retaken Manila...
Ezzard Charles was a five to one favorite to regain the crown from Jersey Joe Walcott in tonight's heavyweight championship fight. If Charles comes back, it will be the first time a heavyweight has retaken the crown after once dosing...
...plugged a hole through which rice had been leaking out of the delta into Viet Minh country. More important than the strategic gain was the fillip to Vietnamese morale and French pride in showing what they could do with the right weapons. There were still vast areas to be retaken from the well-organized Communist guerrillas, but De Lattre could exult: "From now on, the initiative is mine...