Word: retook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...western Venezuela agricultural colony, armed civilians attacked a National Guard post. Repelling the charge, Guardsmen killed one rebel. In nearby Villa Bruzual, civilian revolters captured the National Guard prefecture, but the Guard retook it, killing four...
Stoppered. In Chicago, Mrs. Rum charged her husband George with habitual drunkenness, won her divorce, retook her maiden name: Miss Cork...
...Argylls counterattacked and retook the hill. Major Muir fired a mortar, shouted to his men, "The gooks will never drive the Argylls off this hill." The Argylls held, but their commander died on Hill...
Tank-led infantry teams of the U.S. 3rd Division (evacuated from Hungnam in December) jumped off at 7 a.m., five hours later slogged into Osan without firing a shot, retook two other towns northeast of Osan, and finally, after an advance of twelve miles, ran into Chinese artillery and automatic weapons' fire from high ground positions...
...half-mile-long crest two miles south of the town, changed hands. One day, 6,000 screaming North Koreans drove the doughfeet off the hill, set up mortars on it and poured fire on nearby U.S. positions. After artillery and air attacks had silenced the enemy mortars, the Americans retook the hill. They abandoned it again after dark, without a fight...