Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Domino's founder, Thomas Monaghan, 54, is known for making business decisions the same way he delivers pizzas: in 30 minutes or less. Monaghan has now made another turnabout, ending a two-year spiritual retreat and firing the four executives he had placed in charge of his empire. Monaghan's explanation: A heavenly influence directed him to get back into the kitchen. "God will help him find the way," a Monaghan spokesman told the New York Times. But Domino's problems are pretty down to earth. Partly because of stiff competition in the pizza-delivery business, Monaghan was unable...
...couple in love at the beginning, Ruth (Karen Todd) and Nick (Ian Lithgow) indulge in an idyllic weekend retreat. In classically structured form, Mamet moves to the moments of crisis in which the dissolution of their relationship is most pronounced. Then focuses on achieving resolution--structurally of the play, and literally of the relationship...
Then he began moving his Luzon troops, 65,000 Filipinos and 15,000 Americans, into the mountainous Bataan peninsula, which juts out to the southwest of Manila. Admirers have praised MacArthur's skill in carrying out ! this tactical retreat. "A masterpiece," said his World War I commander, General John Pershing, "one of the greatest moves in all military history." Even the Japanese general staff called it a "great strategic move." But it was a great move only if reinforcements really were on the way. If not, MacArthur was simply marching his men into a death trap...
...troops. A month earlier, he had gone home for treatment of a stomach disorder. Alarmed, Hitler ordered the still ailing Rommel back immediately. By Oct. 25, however, 90% of the Afrika Korps's tanks had been destroyed. Though commanded to fight to the death, Rommel ordered his army to retreat...
...almost be said," wrote Churchill, "that before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein, we never had a defeat." The Germans in North Africa were in irreversible retreat. Four days after the end of the battle of El Alamein, American tanks and soldiers landed around the Moroccan port of Casablanca to join the British in mopping-up operations against the remaining Axis presence...