Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whom I had gone to high school, and Marguerite, her current roommate--who had paid $20 each to catch a glimpse of Richard Dreyfuss, and a taste of what Harvard theater was all about. They hadn't even seen Dreyfuss, but were nonetheless preparing to beat a Hasty Pudding Retreat to the egress at intermission. Marguerite asked the inevitable question: "Is this what all Harvard shows are like?" Mumbling something to the effect that she had missed the point of these affairs entirely, I followed her out the door...
...Crimson beat a hasty retreat in the final matches until Craig Beling appeared in the unlimited division. However, Beling's 7-5 lead disappeared when Cadet John O'Dowd tied the match, 7-7, with a takedown as the final buzzer sounded...
Rockefeller did get some key proposals through the legislature. He streamlined the cumbersome state health department, set up an office of economic and community development, and pleased the state's 54,000 active coal miners by upgrading mine safety regulations. But he was forced to retreat on two campaign promises. First, the legislature would not buy his proposal to eliminate the 3% sales tax on groceries. Says John Fanning, chairman of the senate finance committee: "I saw no reason to give sales tax relief and then have to raise other taxes to make it up." Rockefeller's request...
...week's end the Ethiopians were reported to have swept 20 miles to Babile and taken positions to the south and east of Jijiga, from which they had been driven last August. The Somalis admitted that their forces in the Ogaden were in a "tactical retreat," and on Thursday the Mogadishu government called for general mobilization "in the face of a threatened Ethiopian invasion...
Nixon sometimes offered the retreat to others?to Henry Kissinger to ponder the state of the world and to John Dean to whitewash the state of the coverup. Dean, like his boss, found Camp David conducive to "hard reflective work. It's as close to being away and still being plugged in as anything the Government...