Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beer to roadhouse customers. The leader has many activities, was arrested and released for a killing last year in the Hotsy-Totsy night club, Manhattan. He is out on bail pending Federal trial for a narcotic law violation. Since his last arrest he has dwelt secluded in a mountain retreat at Acra, N. Y., where his ten-room house was guarded (until police raids) by machine-guns, is still guarded by flood lights which sweep every approach...
...bombs in a single day, Pesha- war continued surrounded by hostile besiegers. Some observers began to doubt the efficacy of the R. A. F.'s aerial attack. One rumor was that the Afridi left their capes and turbans lying on the ground when they heard the planes coming over, retreated to caves, amused themselves watching the British blow up their raiment. Another rumor reported that the invaders were led by a fearless, six-foot girl named Nobahar, daughter of a dead Afridi chieftain. After a week of air- bombing, British official reports had the Afridi in full retreat...
...Royal Sussex Regiment. Great & good friend of Poets Robert Graves, Robert Nichols, with them he lived in the Boar's Hill poet's colony (near Oxford) just after the War. Poet Blunden won the Hawthornden Prize in 1922. Other books: The Waggoner, The Shepherd, Masks of Time, Retreat, Undertones...
During this time the plane did not retreat from the twister but impudently dodged about it. Trusting to powerful motors which drove them along at 127 m. p. h. the crew took photographs, copious notes...
...porter did not retreat. On tiptoe he approached Dr. Wollaston's door, listened, heard not a sound, then took heart to peek round the jamb at a dreadful scene. Shot through the heart, the tutor lay crumpled in a chair. Shot through the head, Pupil Potts sprawled dying on the carpet, a pistol near his right hand...