Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thus, Harvard's speed and explosive counter-attack-the cornerstone of its offense-was stymied before MIT ever had to retreat...
...dangerous cross from the right flank forced the Harvard defense to retreat towards its own goal. Thus with the defense on its heels and Dupuis pulled out of position, Columbia's Khouri Mullings ripped a bullet at the Harvard net. Luckily for Harvard, sophomore back Chinezi Chijioke was covering the net and cleared the ball out of trouble, keeping the game scoreless...
Evolution is revolution in today's China, as the great transformation of the communist system proceeds in the painful effort to create a system that works. Last week Jiang Zemin was the latest leader to order a retreat from one of the ideology's sacred tenets: state ownership of industry. Although he cloaked his decision in the semantic cant of "socialism with Chinese characteristics," the change he has ordered is nothing less than the last major step toward Chinese-style capitalism. Beijing will sell off the bulk of the nation's virtually broke state enterprises. Call it what they...
...Israel's retreat around 4 a.m. without the missing commando was an agonizing one: dead and wounded are always brought home, and the decision to leave someone went all the way up to the Defense Minister and the military Chief of Staff. The Israelis concluded that the soldier, who had been carrying explosives, must have been blown to bits. Later someone from Hizballah found parts of his body and offered to trade them for Arab prisoners held by Israel...
...learned English at the order's abbey, Sister Teresa sailed for India. She spent the next 17 years as a teacher and then principal of a Calcutta high school for privileged Bengali girls. It was on Sept. 10, 1946, during a train ride to Darjeeling for a religious retreat, that Teresa received a "call within a call" in which she felt God directed her to the slums. "The message was quite clear," she told colleagues. "I was to leave the convent and help the poor whilst living among them. It was an order...