Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still skeptical. What was the escape from the rat race Krishnamurti described? A retreat from the cold outside to an equally barren monastic existence...
...week he skipped any tete a tete with Ike and merely said publicly: "The easiest thing we could do is to get into a larger war with other nations. We are constantly concerned with the dangers of that. At the same time, we have no desire to capitulate or retreat...
...that same year, he broke the news about the formation of the NRA. He won Pulitzer prizes for exclusive interviews with Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. Even after he was replaced by James Reston as bureau chief in 1953, the probing columnist stayed on the job. "I didn't retreat," he says. "I withdrew to a previously prepared position...
...Johnson finally called it a day after a speech in Lewiston, Me., then boarded the Northampton, a seaborne command post crammed with communications gear, in Portland for an overnight cruise. From the ship's deck, he was to helicopter to meet Pearson at Campobello, F.D.R.'s summer retreat. Johnson and Pearson planned to confer privately for an hour, touching on such topics as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Viet Nam, where Canada is one of three nations on the International Control Commission, then to lay the cornerstone for a reception center in front of the red house...
...mountainside in New Mexico, only to have a soulful Indian talk him into paying dearly for another thousand acres and a herd of Angora goats for the production of "Capricorn semisoft cheese," which goes sour before it can be sold. He is finally carted off to a Texas retreat for the mildly deranged. He might have written his poems in peace here, but mama, newly widowed, reappears to lead him off to a last encounter-with the only blond man in a town full of Mexicans. The man robs and kills Norman-a fitting nonheroic end for an unfitted...