Word: retaken
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Alan Ladd, the cinema's percussion-captious tough guy, discharged by the Army as too brittle last fall, was called for a retake, rumored fit to be retaken...
...Since the winter offensive began on December 19, the Red Army has recaptured 77,220 sq. miles of territory, 13,000 hamlets and towns, vast areas rich in iron ore and manganese. Three-quarters of Russia's invaded soil has been retaken...
...days Vatutin's men had advanced 60-odd miles, captured 2,000 villages and towns. Korosten and Zhitomir, lately taken and lost, had been retaken. Berdichev, the bustling Jewish town once used by Manstein for his headquarters, was in danger. This week Vatutin pushed back the enemy, forced his way across Russia's Polish threshold...
...earnest of what would happen to other lands retaken from Japan according to the Cairo plan; at least some of them would be returned without question to their former imperial owners...
...Driven to a 100-mile depth in the Kharkov push alone; retaken 4,500 square miles of territory, or half the area of Sicily...