Word: retook
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.” President Barack Obama retook control of the drawn-out national debate on health-care reform with his recent address to Congress. Some amalgamation of the five bills currently before Congress will probably become law this year...
...Attica Correctional Facility in 1971. More than 1,000 prisoners rebelled, holding dozens of guards hostage and issuing a series of demands to improve living conditions (prisoners were reportedly allowed only one shower per week and one toilet-paper roll per month). After negotiations broke down, authorities forcibly retook the facility, using tear gas and live ammunition. The violence killed 32 inmates and 11 guards. (Decades later, New York State awarded millions in damages to surviving inmates who said they were mistreated following the insurrection as well as to the families of slain employees.) Other infamous prison disturbances include...
...outgun young men fitted out with the best the Somali black market has to offer is a risky bet. The best solution is likely to be military, based on inspections, exclusion zones, rapid reaction and deadly force. That is how our partners are beginning to view it. French commandos retook a yacht on April 10, killing two pirates. (One passenger was killed.) Last November, the Indian navy sank a pirate "mother ship" off Yemen. Favoring multilateralism over unilateralism often means favoring talk over action; maybe last week's operation is a sign that Obama is not so easily pigeonholed...
...With the crew of the Alabama safe, their thoughts remained with Phillips, who is still being held captive in a lifeboat off the coast of Somalia. In circumstances that are still unclear, he got into the lifeboat with the pirates after the crew retook control of the ship from them...
...offense amped up its tempo down the stretch and grabbed an 11-10 lead with two minutes to go. The Crimson had one last opportunity to tie the game up with 34 seconds remaining. Zdrojewski got the ball inside to MacLaughlin, but a defender forced her to foul. Brown retook possession and waited out the clock to take the 11-10 victory. “Brown-Harvard is a classic rivalry, so it always brings out a higher level in each team,” Farrar said. “They did a good job of closing the deal...