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Word: retook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard retook the lead with two outs in top of the eighth. Co-Captain Frank Caprio broke Grossguth's hitless spell with a single and scored on Co-Captain Frank Morelli's double to make the score 3-2. Dorrington retired the Friars in the bottom of the inning to earn the victory...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Batsmen Sweep Providence | 5/6/1988 | See Source »

Overnight, however, heavily reinforced army units retook Nablus. They arrested more than 20 troublemakers and beat countless others. The city and its surrounding refugee camps were placed under a curfew. The violence spread elsewhere, and the army began using bullets once again. Three Palestinians were killed and half a dozen wounded in clashes between troops and stone- throwing protesters in the West Bank village of Anabta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World - empty story | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...Harvard played a superior, if hectic, ballgame overall and quickly retook the lead for good. The Crimson shot 59 percent from the floor in the second half (54 percent for the game), and committed only 13 turnovers. But Harvard's intensity, if statistically measurable, would have been unusually...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Men Hoopsters Overrun Manhattan, 96-90 | 12/15/1986 | See Source »

Leadoff hitter Mary Baldauf reached on a walk, and both Lisa Rowning and Trisha Brown slapped singles to load the sacks. Harvard's threat peetered out after a Sharon Hayes sacrifice fly, though, and the batswomen retook the field still trailing...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Batswomen Batter Bentley, 6-3 | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

Somebody up there must love nbc. After three uninterrupted years of being unable to best ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Today retook the morning ratings lead for two weeks. Last week should turn out to be the third in a row, since Today pulled off something of a programming miracle. Responding to the network's shrewdly written (in Polish) request, Pope John Paul II gave NBC extraordinary, although not unprecedented, access to the Vatican as part of the show's week of live broadcasts from Rome. The Pope extended a personal welcome to the NBC crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 15, 1985 | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

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