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Word: retreatant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extremely difficult, if not impossible, for McVeigh to get an acquittal. Still, Jones will press on. This week he will raise questions about a wider conspiracy by asking the government to hand over all evidence pertaining to Carol Howe, a former atf informant at Elohim City, an Oklahoma retreat of the radical Christian Identity movement. McVeigh phoned Elohim City two weeks before the bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MCVEIGH: DIARIES DEAREST | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

...never see them again. For the next six weeks, the two endured painful soul-searching in a Texas country ranch house. They said later that it was difficult to concentrate on their developing beliefs that UFOs would come one day to take them to a higher world. But the retreat gave them a new understanding of their calling, and the two embarked on a long journey of proselytizing. The pair, who went by many names - "Him and Her," "Bo and Peep," "Doh and Ti" - gathered "sheep," as they called new recruits, by traveling to small towns throughout the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Long Journey to Death | 3/30/1997 | See Source »

...never see them again. For the next six weeks, the two endured painful soul-searching in a Texas country ranch house. They said later that it was difficult to concentrate on their developing beliefs that UFOs would come one day to take them to a higher world. But the retreat gave them a new understanding of their calling, and the two embarked on a long journey of proselytizing. The pair, who went by many names - "Him and Her," "Bo and Peep," "Doh and Ti" - gathered "sheep," as they called new recruits, by traveling to small towns throughout the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Long Journey to Death | 3/29/1997 | See Source »

...FIBROIDS in retreat? A preliminary trial finds that the benign tumors shrink markedly when doctors inject uterine arteries with a solution containing tiny plastic particles. The injections cut off the blood supply to the fibroids--apparently without harming the uterus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 24, 1997 | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...hours) moves along economically, dwelling on no single aspect of a person's life but rather cramming in the whole cradle-to-grave (or cradle-to-this-minute) story. While a filmmaker could produce an entire documentary on the subject of, say, Attila the Hun's retreat from Rome, Biography's look at the 5th century conqueror spends scarcely one minute examining that historic event. Compensation comes in the details offered about Attila's life, like the fact that as an expression of his humility, he ate only from wooden bowls rather than kingly pewter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: THESE ARE THEIR LIVES | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

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