Word: regained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home, he constantly plotted against the Arefs. One abortive but memorable 1964 attempt involved six Baathist air force MIG pilots, who planned to shoot down the presidential transport as it lifted from a runway. When worsening conditions in the country this year gave Al-Bakr a better chance to regain power, he started meeting at his house with 13 retired officer-politicians. In April, the group presented a petition to Aref for extensive reforms, including general elections within two years. When Aref balked, Al-Bakr and his friends began meticulously to plan last week's coup. They executed...
...commission also announced that it will schedule public hearings on Hughes's acquisition of ABC stock. In that case, Hughes might back out of the deal altogether. In 1963, in the course of a legal battle to regain voting rights on TWA stock that the airline's creditors had forced him to hand over to trustees, Hughes abandoned the suit rather than make a court appearance; he sold the stock for $546.5 million and ended his association with a company that had been among his most cherished assets. The best way to defeat Hughes seems...
...Inquirer, other commentators declared that the McGinniss kind of reaction was indeed overdone. "Some psychologists," wrote New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, "believe that the 'sick society' idea is a sort of American defense mechanism; these dreadful things having happened, some Americans are anxious to regain their self-regard and the respect of others, and therefore hurry to accept the responsibility for awful events." It may be, agreed David Broder in the Washington Post, that the wave of assassinations heralds a "social breakdown," but it "seems to me a form of escapism to throw up our hands...
...obvious that the demonstrators had failed to arouse a new "consciousness" in their fellow students. Their cause was lost unless they could pull something out of their collective hat at the last minute. The administration sensed the student support for its position, and was willing to use force to regain law and order. The administration had hesitated for so long because given the highly unorthodox situation of the occupied buildings, the demonstrators had the advantage, on a small scale, that the administration had on the larger one. The status quo was temporarily on the side of the student demonstrators...
Victory Claim. Obviously chary of capitulating to the demonstrators, Columbia officials seemed equally reluctant to regain control of their university. The students refused to quit their posts without a promise of general amnesty for all demonstrators-a condition that President Kirk rejected. Failure to take disciplinary action, Kirk insisted, would "destroy the whole fabric of the university community." But the school yielded on at least one important point. At the urging of New York City Mayor John Lindsay, it announced that it would temporarily suspend construction of the disputed gymnasium. Still the students refused to budge...