Word: retook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pampas, plotters captured government buildings and a radio station at the cattle capital of Santa Rosa. Over the radio, for three hours, they demanded "freedom for all political prisoners, elections in six months, the cancellation of the Prebisch [economic recovery] Plan, lower living costs." As Rojas' 13th Cavalry retook Santa Rosa with air support, the radio abruptly ceased its clatter. Fourteen hours after the uprising began, Rojas, gaunt and tired, appeared on the balcony of Government House to announce victory and praise the "indestructible union of the armed forces...
...Rica. In San José, bank clerks and teachers pulled on volunteer reserve uniforms with panther-head shoulder patches; under command of the Minister of Public Works, they took off through the picture-book coffee country in trucks and jeeps. Stalking through Villa Quesada's shuttered streets, they retook the place, capturing 20 insurgents...
Momentarily stunned, the Crimson soon retook the initiative and went ahead again on Frank Mahoney's goal at 3:19. Lawn tried to another a shot by Ned Blase but Mahoney scored before he could gain control...
...lead the German landing in Britain (Operation Sea-Lion ) that never happened (because the amazing British beat off Goring's air assault). In Russia, he opened the fortified gateway to the Crimean peninsula, stormed the Russian Black Sea naval bastion at Sevastopol, and led the counterattack that retook Kharkov in March 1943. Hitler, disliking his outspoken manners as much as he depended on his ability, finally fired him in 1944, first acknowledging: "Manstein is perhaps the best brain that the General Staff Corps has produced...
...Thirty-ninth Army forces on and around Big Nori. Two days later, after a devastating barrage of 8,000 mortar and artillery rounds that almost cratered the top of Little Nori, Mao's men attacked and drove the stunned Koreans off the knob. The ROKs counterattacked, retook the knob, were driven off again. Nine more times the ROKs tried to regain the lost ground, in vain...