Word: retreated
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Only if the blockade is broken by a joint force of the Western maritime nations -- Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, as well as the United States--can Nasser retreat. It would be foolhardy for him to provoke war with all these powers. The Soviet Union, which has encouraged him thus far, would not follow him into war against the U.S. in a situation where none of the Soviets' vital interests are involved. Nasser could undercut domestic opposition by launching another virulent propaganda campaign against "Zionist" elements in the U.S. and other Western countries...
...bastion is formidable. Isolated by a bordering ring of mountains and agriculturally self-sufficient, Szechwan has a long tradition of rebellion against central governments. It has often proved a handy retreat for Chinese rulers in trouble, from the Emperor Ming of the 8th century to Chiang Kai-shek in the 1930s. So independent are the Szechwanese, that, as one Chinese proverb has it, "in Szechwan the dogs even bark...
...same, man cannot escape death-and the not yet disproved possibility of judgment beyond. On this issue, many theologians retreat into agnosticism. If man is sufficiently fulfilled on earth, says Dr. Albert van den Heuvel of the World Council of Churches, "we can leave it to Jesus to worry about the details." The Gospel, adds Dr. Edward Craig Hobbs of Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, "offers a message for this life. If, by some chance, we should discover ourselves still conscious after death, we will probably receive a new set of instructions...
...relief force was in sight, and Reno ordered his men to dismount and fight on foot. Against odds as high as 10 to 1, Reno's men managed to advance to the first tepees of the camp before the Indians started to cut off their lines of retreat...
...conjunction with Harvard, was the nation's first institution to teach modern management techniques on a graduate level. It operates a trade school in a Madrid working-class district known as "Little Moscow," a center for the ever-rebellious coal miners of Asturias, even maintains a "spiritual retreat" where bullfighters can escape at least the horns of the devil...