Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guerrillas, approached in an extended line. Their AK-47 rifles started blazing as they walked toward the dilapidated farmhouse. "They just opened fire on us," said Ralph Chadwick, a farm equipment dealer who was visiting the property with two other whites. "We scrambled for cover and beat a fast retreat to our cars as the firing got hotter." Returning with police 30 minutes later, they found the farm's white manager, Gerald William Adams, 68, dead with a single bullet in his back...
...rooms shuttered, its fountains dry, its citrus grove, four greenhouses and nine-hole golf course seedy and overgrown. When the cereal heiress died in 1973, she willed the 17-acre oceanfront estate-built in 1927 at a cost of $8 million-to the U.S. Government as a retreat for Presidents and foreign dignitaries. Alas, her posthumous hospitality had virtually no takers. Congress was reluctant to maintain Mar-a-Lago (Spanish for Sea-to-Lake) and equally reluctant to give it up, which thwarted efforts by local politicians to turn it over to the Post Foundation...
Altogether, Reagan filled 23 pages to report his income, including Schedule F for his 688-acre Rancho del Cielo retreat near Santa Barbara. He reported that the ranch, which he uses mostly for pleasure, earned $3,024 from the sale of 14 head of cattle and $3,350 from grazing land that is leased to a neighbor. Expenses totaled $15,479, including payments for a hired hand ($3,839), repairs on a Jeep ($2,363) and "horseshoeing" ($367). All told, Reagan showed a $9,105 loss on the ranch operations, which saved him roughly $4,500 in federal taxes...
...year history- to consider the plight of the Palestinian Arabs. Under discussion was a draft resolution, sponsored by a number of Arab and other Third World nations, that would endorse the right of Palestinians to form their own sovereign state and that would order Israel to retreat to its pre-1967 boundaries. On previous occasions, emergency sessions had been called to deal with fast-breaking crises, such as the North Korean invasion of South Korea in 1950 and the outbreak of chaos in the former Belgian Congo a decade later. This time the resolution's sponsors seized...
...into tiny painful blisters; when they burst they can pour out millions of infectious virus particles. The victim may become feverish and, in the case of women especially, experience a sharp burning during urination. In about ten days the sores heal, but the viruses do not go away. They retreat to nerves near the lower spinal cord, remaining there for the life of the victim. Under pressure of stress, menstruation or sudden change in temperature, they can return without warning-weeks, months or years after the first occurrence. Sometimes they never come back...