Word: retreated
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...pending. The court stressed that state legislators and administrators were better suited than judges to decide how to run their penitentiaries. But, said Justices William Brennan, Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens in a concurring opinion, "today's decision should in no way be construed as a retreat from careful judicial scrutiny of prison conditions...
...From the first days of [your] crisis, we deemed it important that the [Polish] party decisively resist attempts by the enemies of socialism to take advantage of [your] difficulties. But this has not been done at all. Constant concessions to antisocialist forces and their demands have led to a retreat by the Polish party, step by step, under pressure of domestic counterrevolution...
Leaving a secure academic position at Columbia University to come to Harvard last spring was no scholarly retreat for Nathan I. Huggins. W.E.B. DuBois Professor of History and Afro-American studies. His acceptance of Dean Rosovsky's offer last year put him at the helm of a department that has seen more administrative politics in its 12-year life than any other. Members of the Harvard community and scholars around the nation have viewed the Faculty's hasty decision to create an Afro-American studies department in 1969 as a concession to the Black militancy accompanying that year's spring...
Putnam's statements drew fire from undergraduates who charged Putnam and the Corporation with attempting to take advantage of a temporary lull in student activism in order to retreat from the sole concession they had made in April 1978, when 3000-plus protestors demanded complete divestitutre...
...pattern, he muses on its meaning: "I'm caught up, beached, between two tides, the old one of fathering-husbanding and the new one of aging-dying." occasionally, a third voice interrupts the narrative. It is Dad's mind, rehearsing the elaborative fantasy that has been a retreat for most of his adult life. In it, he owns the farm that he always wanted, raises a family of four (not two, as in that other place), lives in harmony with his wife, and moves to the slow dance of the seasons...