Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week Larry Csonka, 28, was back at his 400-acre farm retreat in Lisbon, Ohio, preparing to settle in with his wife and two sons for his first fall in 17 years without football. "When my kids register for school here," he told TIME's Jay Rosenstein, "their father's occupation will be listed either as 'unemployed' or 'who knows...
...courses, an Olympic-size swimming pool, a discotheque and a restaurant that served Mexico's finest French food, prepared by Emmanuel de Camp, once a chef at Maxim's. Post seemed close to achieving his ultimate vision: an ultra-exclusive preserve where the powerful and wealthy could retreat to cavort and contemplate...
Yesterday Gibson appeared to retreat from his two predictions made Friday. While insisting that the magnetic stripe is an "idea whose time has come," he also said that Harvard now has the flexibility to decide whether to reissue cards annually or use the magnetic stripe...
After the death of Carrero Blanco, Franco spent most of his time behind the walls of El Pardo Palace, a luxurious retreat on the fringes of Madrid built by King Charles V in 1543. Except for occasional fishing trips aboard his yacht the Azor or official visits to the Valley of the Fallen, a monumental Civil War Memorial that was at one time intended to serve as his tomb, Franco rarely emerged from his palace. Even the fishing trips must have become a dispiriting confirmation of the mortality he hated to acknowledge, a further assault on the pride he took...
...committee's work took the entire Divinity School faculty to North Andover a couple of weekends ago for a two-day retreat exclusively devoted to discussing its findings...