Word: retook
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...Lebanese Army retook Beirut last week, but not with guns blazing. As the tanks and armored cars rattled through the streets, people peered over bullet-pocked balconies and cheered. Some women tossed rice and rose water at the grinning soldiers. While one brigade pushed through East Beirut, where most of the Christians live, another swept through predominantly Muslim West Beirut, reclaiming neighborhoods that had been controlled by local militias since February. The army units converged on the "green line," the dread boundary splitting the city, and bulldozed its makeshift banks of dirt and rubble. The city's airport...
...Farrell's slam give Harvard the early lead, and when UMass tied it up, the Crimson retook the lead. Bover walked and stole second, and Martelli doubled him in to give the batmen a 5-4 edge in the third...
...pattern was of similar answers, and they happened to be wrong answers." When twelve of the students retook the test, they all passed again. The similarities were "very simple," explained Escalante. "They had the same teacher...
...more reporters entered the prison, more hostages were freed. When the last two guards walked out at 1:26 p.m. on Sunday, the policemen and National Guardsmen retook the prison without firing a shot. An hour later, Governor Bruce King announced that the riot was over and bent down to kiss an elderly Hispanic woman, one of the hundreds of inmates' relatives who had stood outside the fence all night. Her face turned stony. "What happened to our men?" she demanded...
Harvard jumped out to a 10-4 lead in the early minutes of the first half against Penn. Eventually the Quakers retook the lead, 13-12; but in some furious action, the Crimson came right back. The lead exchanged hands six more times in the next few minutes as both teams scorched the nets...