Word: retaken
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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...
...came, and the shops crumpled and burned. Shopkeepers buried or carried away their goods. The East Gate Market became an empty wilderness of rubble, galvanized iron and silence. Seoul fell to the Communists, was retaken, fell again, once more was retaken...
...forces had retaken the South Korean capital of Seoul...
Pohang, a minor but useful port, had been lost to the enemy last month arid then retaken by the South Koreans in what they prematurely called their "greatest victory of the war." Last week, cracking before a tremendous Red onslaught, they lost Pohang again. Pohang's airport, which a U.S. task force was defending, was still in Allied hands at week...