Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson started strong and held a three-point lead several times in the first half. However, in the late stages of the first stanza, the Cliffe Cagers tired and had to retreat to the locker room at the contest's midpoint trailing...
...ruled North rather than the independent South at the time of the 1921 partition. Armagh is a staging area for gunmen of the Provisional Wing of the Irish Republican Army (Provos), who frequently enter the country from sanctuaries in the Irish Republic to strike at British military targets, then retreat across the border. Since January 1975, 13 British and Ulster soldiers have died as the result of l.R.A. attacks in Armagh, which Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees, recently described as "bandit country." TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron visited the embattled area and sent this report...
...mathematician-philosopher Bertrand Russell was a child's delight, full of games and good spirits and tall tales. As the Pied Piper of Cairn Voel, his country retreat on the Cornwall coast, he used to lead his young followers on hunts for the ingredients of a special home brew-a concoction of stagnant water, mold, dead leaves, old grass and whatever other unsavories could be dredged up at the moment...
...they prevail may well depend largely on U.S. policy. Explains a Western official: "The Soviets are backed into a corner, so part of their problem is to save face. If there's any chance of getting them out, the U.S. will have to help by not trumpeting the retreat as a great victory for American pressure...
...U.D.T. and its allies, including the pro-Indonesian Timorese Popular Democratic Association (APODETI), for a counteroffensive. Fretilin forces, described by an Australian reporter as "looking like a Dad's army of hippies," had set the stage for last week's showdown in November, when, already in retreat, they declared East Timor an independent free state...