Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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VIENNA, Austria--High level superpower arms control talks ended bitterly yesterday with the Soviet Union accusing the United States of a "complete retreat" from positions agreed to at the Iceland summit. Secretary of State George P. Shultz said "Star Wars" was still the sticking point...
...time the massacre ended, the Crimson was rocking atop a lopsided 8-1 score--and the dazed Minutemen were beating a hasty retreat from Ohiri Field...
...provoke a twinge of concern. Does Sargent signal a retreat from the standards the Whitney has battled for -- the commitment to glitz that gave us the 1985 Biennial, the taste for inflated prettiness set forth in its Alex Katz retrospective, the reluctance to edit that made Eric Fischl's show such a letdown? True, Director Tom Armstrong valiantly tries to establish a link by pointing, in a catalog note, to Sargent's "highly expressive manner and his treatment of subject matter and narrative content, all of which are of great interest to contemporary artists." However, Sargent's "manner...
...order to save it. Supported by scores of MiGs and other jets, and Mi-24 helicopters, some 10,000 troops managed to fight their way through to Barikot, but after a few days the guerrillas began to close in behind and around them. The main force had to retreat, leaving behind a beefed-up garrison dug in behind a maze of minefields and heavily armed with howitzers, mortars and rocket launchers...
...September 6 address before the crowd at Harvard's 350th birthday celebration, Secretary of State George P. Shultz pointed out the evils of isolationism, warning of "thoughtless escapism, a retreat from responsibility, an attempt to evade the reality of our dependence on the world and the world's dependence...