Word: retook
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...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...
...western Venezuela agricultural colony, armed civilians attacked a National Guard post. Repelling the charge, Guardsmen killed one rebel. In nearby Villa Bruzual, civilian revolters captured the National Guard prefecture, but the Guard retook it, killing four...
Stoppered. In Chicago, Mrs. Rum charged her husband George with habitual drunkenness, won her divorce, retook her maiden name: Miss Cork...
...Argylls counterattacked and retook the hill. Major Muir fired a mortar, shouted to his men, "The gooks will never drive the Argylls off this hill." The Argylls held, but their commander died on Hill...
...half-mile-long crest two miles south of the town, changed hands. One day, 6,000 screaming North Koreans drove the doughfeet off the hill, set up mortars on it and poured fire on nearby U.S. positions. After artillery and air attacks had silenced the enemy mortars, the Americans retook the hill. They abandoned it again after dark, without a fight...