Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after day, the disturbing news from the East crashed upon the President's retreat like the waves from the Pacific below. First came the Supreme Court's unanimous decision that the President must surrender the 64 subpoenaed tapes to Judge John Sirica. This was followed by the defection of at least five Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee at the beginning of the committee's televised debate...
When Constantine Caramanlis flew off to exile in Paris in 1963 after a stinging defeat at the polls, his departure from Greek politics reminded many of Charles de Gaulle's huffy retreat to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises after the French liberation. As one of his parting shots, the former Greek Premier told an audience, with more than a touch of Gaullist hubris: "The true political leader does not need the people. The people need the true political leader...
...oversimplification, but I think a reasonable and permissible one, to say that the mood on campus today reflects the same retreat into political apathy Alexandrov remembered of Russia in the 1890s. His article in 1906 was particularly moving because it reminded me that the mood can shift once again. Perhaps demonstrations are no longer viable forms of political activism, and maybe the shift away from political apathy will not come in the form of revolution, but it can and must come out of personal commitments reaching much deeper than a search for some kind of personal security so characteristic...
Charles E. Fraser, 45, bought a 4,000-acre tract on South Carolina's Hilton Head Island from his father in 1956 and during the next decade turned it into an elegant retreat for the well-heeled and sports-minded. A Yale-educated lawyer, Fraser earned a reputation as an ecology-minded developer who left Hilton Head's rich marshlands and nature trails intact. He has lately extended his Sea Pines resort empire to Florida, Puerto Rico and Daufuskie Island...
Near the end of his reign in 1722, the Chinese Emperor K'ang-hsi again turned to his copy of the I Ching. Nothing he found under the entry for "Retreat" seemed to apply to rulers. "There is no place for rulers to rest," he told his followers in a valedictory address. "Bowing down in service and wearing oneself out," he concluded, "indeed applies to this situation...