Word: regroups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bowles character jots down a "recipe for dissolving the impression of hideousness made by a thing: Fix the attention upon the given object or situation so that the various elements, all familiar, will regroup themselves. Frightfulness is never more than an unfamiliar pattern." Bowles may believe this, but his stories regularly do the reverse. They fix the attention on beauty and then suggest the frightfulness within. Pages from Cold Point, Bowles' best, eeriest tale, paints an idyllic Jamaican setting. But the narrator soon learns that his 16-year-old son is homosexual and has been cruising in dangerous native...
Seeking refuge from the fighting, tens of thousands of hungry, homeless Cambodian peasants have fled to makeshift refugee camps in Thailand; columns of Khmer Rouge guerrillas have also crossed the border temporarily, to rest and regroup. The exodus has been building since mid-April, when six Vietnamese divisions launched a pre-monsoon offensive to eliminate Khmer Rouge pockets of resistance along the Thai border. leng Sary, Deputy Premier in the Pol Pot regime, has accused the Vietnamese of practicing genocide and a scorched-earth policy in carrying out the relentless drive...
...hope exams don't kill us and we can regroup for the GBC's," McCurdy said...
Meanwhile, the question of the hour is whether Massachusetts Republicans will be able to regroup over the next four years and counter-attack in 1982. As it stands now, the Republicans have been shut out of any statewide offices. For them, at least, it's going to be a long drought...
Although Esteli appears to be the last guerilla stronghold, sources in Managua said the rebellion may not be over. They said many rebels have fled into Honduras and Costa Rica to regroup and attack again...