Word: retreatant
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...modern world's history, with all its challenges and abuses?and the unparalleled opportunities for human endeavor. To me, it's perfectly fitting that an adventure which began with ?lite climbers is undertaken by a blind guy 50 years later. We cannot step back and close the mountain, for retreat would annihilate the modern age's greatest gift to humanity: the freedom of an individual to choose his own path...
...bright.) In that only mildly inappropriate way that pop culture tends to reference Howard Taft’s or Larry Summers’ size whenever those names are mentioned, maybe we can all agree joking about the Samoans is hurtful. But a so-called patriotic organization’s retreat in the face of the Samoan lobby is farcical. (Oh, it exists: just ask the portly pork-barreler Eni Faleomavaega, American Samoa’s non-voting delegate in Congress...
...winning side, sadness and horror intrude into memories of glory. Novelists can capture the mixed emotions that go with war better than historians. It's no accident that Ian McEwan's Atonement--perhaps the most admired British novel of the past decade--has at its center the retreat of British forces to Dunkirk, a story that mixes courage, fear and incompetence in equal measures...
Some Pentagon officials argue that the retreat of the regular Republican Guard could be a plus. As demoralized troops find themselves fighting for their lives in the capital, conditions could ripen for a coup. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld all but called for one, saying Iraqi forces "must now decide whether they want to share the fate of Saddam Hussein or whether they will turn on that condemned dictator and help the forces of Iraq's liberation." But Pentagon officials concede that the surprising resistance shown by the most loyal of Iraq's forces means that Washington cannot count...
...Mansour neighborhood Tuesday where he was sighted meeting with aides. British intelligence, however, says the Iraqi leader was seen escaping the site moments before the bombing. Iraqi opposition sources say he slipped out of the capital with at least one of his sons. Some speculated he may try to retreat to his hometown of Tikrit, to make a final stand among his kith and kin. But a persistent rumor in the Arab world suggested Saddam may have taken refuge in the Russian embassy, also in al-Mansour...