Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first fires broke out that same night, and new ones kept starting. The victorious Napoleon offered peace; the beaten Alexander refused to negotiate. The victorious Napoleon decided he had to retreat; the Russians harried him all the way back to Germany. Closer to home, Napoleon was still able to beat back all attackers, but Alexander persuaded the Prussians and Austrians to march directly on Paris. Napoleon's underlings succeeded in persuading him to abdicate. Alexander's triumph made Russia for the first time a great European power, and filled the Russians with an intoxicating sense of greatness. From...
That bedrock contention of the cold war simply does not stand up these days. Insofar as the Kremlin still calls the tune, it is sounding retreat. In the past year the U.S.S.R. has removed its army from Afghanistan, prevailed on Viet Nam to withdraw its troops from Cambodia, and helped begin extricating the Cubans from Angola...
...that was the postwar world; this is the post-cold war world, and things are dizzyingly different. Europe has been transformed by the retreat of Soviet imperial power, the collapse of Communist governments in the center of the Continent and the evaporation of the Warsaw Pact. The blinding pace of events actually accelerated last week, clearing the way for the unification of Germany, a new European security system and a 35-nation conference to ratify the reconstruction -- all before the end of this year...
...Democratic retreat created an opening for gleeful Republicans, who found themselves in the unaccustomed role of Social Security's staunchest defenders. Says a Republican leader: "As usual, ((the Democrats)) began flapping around and knocking each other down like the F Troop of politics." To the consternation of Democratic leaders, G.O.P. lawmakers began distributing campaign buttons with the slogan SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY. VOTE REPUBLICAN. George Bush also weighed in, repeating the pledge made in his State of the Union Address that he would not "mess around" with Social Security. "This is an effort to get me to try to raise taxes...
...rehabilitated run for a fourth term after he emerges from Hanley-Hazelden, as farfetched as that may seem. Barry, 53, pleaded with reporters to "back away" while he recovers from an unspecified "problem" that aides say centers on alcoholism. But even the tearful news conference that preceded his retreat to Hanley-Hazelden seemed calculated. The mayor, sweating profusely and looking to wife Effi for support, artfully excluded any mention of drugs. Barry's disappearance extricated him from legal wrangling over a possible plea bargain and from defense preparations that may hinge on the FBI videotape. Investigators, protesting that the tape...