Word: retreatant
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...while riding his horse, and outraces them in a mad gallop across half of Rome. He joins the navy and finds himself shooting at a much larger Austrian force across the barrier of a river that is, alas, drying up. Friends die. He is swept up in a mutinous retreat, caught, imprisoned, condemned, then released on the whim of a mad dwarf in the war ministry, whose function is to make sure that military orders are garbled and meaningless. Then he is thrown back into the line, wounded, and swept up again, this time in a love affair with...
When the struggle between the animals is over, one of them has emerged as dominant, and the other as subordinate. The dominant lobster will stand over the subordinate, which will crouch low to the ground and retreat...
...questions have come to the fore in recent weeks because of several stories the Times has chosen to run in quick succession. By far the most serious surround the paper's treatment of the woman who has accused William Kennedy Smith of raping her at the Kennedy family's retreat in Palm Beach, Fla., in March. One day after the NBC Nightly News disclosed her name, with an elaborate justification, the Times abandoned its own long-standing practice of withholding the names of sex-crime victims and followed suit...
...life on the edge. Congenitally unhappy with what he later called his manic-depressive self, he found himself a double agent at a tender age, a student at the Berkhamsted School, where his father reigned as headmaster. Naturally, his classmates made his life miserable, and Greene sought retreat in voracious reading. But the drama served up by his favorite authors (among them John Buchan and Joseph Conrad) reminded Greene that he had been born at an unpropitious time. "We were," he wrote, "a generation brought up on adventure stories who had missed the enormous disillusionment of the First World...
Moses has been in contact with Trinity for the past several years, several times running a retreat for the school's seniors that dealt with the realities of college life. As a result, when Trinity officials called about the vacant headmaster post, Moses says, he agreed to be considered...