Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese Garden, with the Turkish flag hanging in it, was a beautiful sight to witness, and was well worth walking across the hall for. It was a likely retreat for timid folks and couple after couple could be seen creeping up the stairs to this garden with its scent of Skunk...
...course, the announcement amounts to a humiliating surrender for the President and the Administration and would never have been made except to coyer retreat; but it is artfully devised to mislead the country and to deny the taxpayer the full benefit of relief to which he is entitled...
...generations ago, this scene, but one of the mornings of last week. The buffalo, some of the last in the world, were restive because the day before, to their retreat on the rugged northern end of Antelope Island, had come a smell that they had seldom known but instinctively feared-men and horses...
Those words Mr. Littel denounces: perpetual repetition has entitled them to at least a temporary retreat, in fact has made their public appearance obnoxious--as obnoxious--as innocent words can be. Then there is another type, 'elusive charm', 'clashes of beauty', 'sharply silhouetted',--ad nauseam. But what, as Mr. Littel asks, is to be done? One must use words and phrases to "fill in" especially when one has little to say, And these old companions are "so often found at one's elbow when in a hurry or a tight place"; they are words which have niches and occasions rather...
...found that one glacier had disappeared entirely and that another had retreated six miles since 1920," said Field. "The retreat of the ice has in some places created new islands and channels, and has made many other variations in the topography of the region...