Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard lights came roaring into this season a month ago shouting "no prisoners," signifying their determination to sweep a swath through Eastern rowing without mercy. But this powerful eight is regrouping for a second charge down the mountainside this week after Yale forced a hasty retreat last Sunday...
...Several months ago, the Department of Defense had scheduled an early April meeting of some of its officers at the sprawling Hershey convention center. But since the situation created by Three Mile Island was, ahem, "so uncertain," as one source put it, the brass decided to beat a strategic retreat. They rescheduled their meeting at Ocean City, Md., out of fallout range...
...gentlemen from the highest office, but some of them might have had a hard time getting there today. For Americans now even hold strong notions about the cut of a Chief Executive's clothes. Harry Truman incensed many button-down traditionalists by hacking around his Key West vacation retreat in criminally garish sports shirts. The spectacle of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the flamboyant cape and floppy hats that he loved to flaunt raised the blood pressure of old-school Republicans...
Estis said the points Bok raises against corporate withdrawal represent a "retreat from the Corporation's statement" that withdrawal could in some cases aid black South Africans effectively...
...year-old retreat for the reclusive, recherche and rich, from Gable to Streisand, the Hana caravansary sprinkles its pastel-colored bungalows (only 57 rooms) over 20 acres of manicured grass, perched between a 14,000-acre cattle ranch and the sandy half-moon of Hamoa Beach. Manager Tony de Jetley, an urbane Englishman who is married to a beautiful Hawaiian curiously named Alberta, enumerates 69 regular activities for hotel guests and their children; they range from frond weaving and night tide-pool fishing to breakfast cookouts and quarter-horse riding through terrain often photographed for Marlboro ads. Some families return...