Word: retook
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...Iraq. He has been a ruler, says Coughlin, who "has always had one eye on history." He has longed for his name to go down in Arab history alongside those of the culture's great heroes, like Nebuchadnezzar, who drove the Jews into Babylonian captivity, and Saladin, who retook Jerusalem from the Christian Crusaders. He wanted to fulfill the modern-day promise of Egypt's great nationalist Gamal Abdul Nasser, restoring Arab unity and the greater Arab nation to its rightful place in the world. In recent years the standard-bearer of secular Baathism even turned to prayer to exploit...
...School, he runs marathons, sleeps little more than four hours a night, has written a best seller on bioterrorism and during congressional breaks likes to fly to places like Uganda and Sudan to practice surgery. He also has great organizational skills. The White House won credit when the G.O.P. retook the Senate last November, but it was Frist who managed the takeover behind the scenes as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee...
Colombia gave peace a chance. In 1999 the government effectively ceded the FARC a territory the size of Switzerland as a condition for negotiations. Until this year, when the government retook nominal control, this supposedly demilitarized zone had provided the guerillas a safe haven to train, improve their equipment and learn tactics from Irish Republican Army veterans. The guerillas took less interest in the peace talks, always demanding more concessions for the privilege of their company...
...personal and meditative air, descending from the bandstand and playing among the tables, each time with a slightly different nuance. After shaking everyone’s hand with a hardy and humble “Nice to meet you, I’m Frankie V,” he retook center stage and the band gelled with their keystone back in place, listening to the tune one last time...
When Taliban fighters retook the city, they killed 8,000, particularly the Shi'ite Hazaras, and left corpses rotting in the streets. Now Dostum and his allies own the city again, and Pashtun are fleeing because they fear massacre...