Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally we were informed that Camp David was what we would call a dacha-a country retreat built by [President Franklin D.] Roosevelt during the war as a place for him to get away for a rest. Far from being an act of discrimination, I learned, it was a great honor for me to be invited to spend a few days at Camp David with Eisenhower...
...songs convey a bitterness about almost anything a person could be bitter about--death, frustrated sex, lost lovers, futile dreams, old age. The songs show us lonely, defeated people who have been hurt so many times by others that all they can do is dream inefficacious dreams and retreat into...
...Pompon." The President also had a common touch. At his Orvilliers retreat, he frequently invited the villagers to play billiards with him. He did not mind being photographed in a sloppy sweatshirt, ashes spewing from the ubiquitous cigarette that dangled from his lower lip. Nor did he seem to mind the slightly disparaging nickname they gave him: "Pompon...
Cullinan got to Vesco through mutual acquaintances among Costa Rican politicians. The result was a series of conversations in Vesco's opulent retreat outside the capital, San Jose. Throughout one talk, a small handgun rested on a table near the casually dressed Vesco. During another, Vesco unburdened his contempt for American democracy ("goddam mob rule") and sympathy for Nixon's fallen men ("Take John Mitchell, that poor s.o.b., or Agnew ... These people cannot afford to pay what I'm paying in legal fees-well over $1 million a year...
...Kennedy's part, the compromise was a retreat. For the past 3½years he has been pushing a sweeping, Government-financed system that would provide Americans with lifetime care, from nursery to nursing home, at an estimated cost of some $60 billion a year. But Kennedy has now recognized political realities: doctors, leery of any program that would change the health care delivery system, opposed this plan vigorously, while the public has shown no willingness to accept the tax burdens that such comprehensive coverage would entail...