Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many supporters are rallying to a campaign led by two formerly blacklisted screenwriters, Abraham Polonsky and Bernard Gordon, urging the audience at the Oscar ceremony to "sit on their hands" when Kazan accepts his award unless he recants his sins. This curious plan represents something of a tactical retreat for Polonsky, who only weeks ago was "hoping someone shoots [Kazan]" because "it would no doubt be a thrill on an otherwise dull evening...
Already, committees have begun to work on a retreat for NAACP national leaders, to be held at Harvard this April. The chapter is currently planning a reception with NAACP President Kweizi Mfume at the Faculty Club...
...middle of dance floor and we work through the crowd to say hello. When we get up close, we find ourselves duped once again--it isn't our friend; just someone strikingly similar--his evil twin, we nervously joke. The third floor has us beat and we retreat downstairs. We enter the second floor to take one last look...
...context that already last spring, led us at the World Economic Forum to make responsible globality the theme of this year's annual meeting in Davos. Of course there have been a lot of comments--gleeful or disappointed--about the globalization process being stalled or even in retreat and looking at the crisis as a setback for global capitalism. The actions taken by some economies to protect themselves from the vagaries of gigantic short-term capital flows swinging wildly on the basis of the herd instinct would seem to be a case in point...
...school. Tuition is the only requirement for acceptance. Isolated and outside the jurisdiction of American law, Queen's is "the boot camp of medical schools," motivating its students by any means necessary--namely bullying and psychological abuse. According to the publicist, thrust into this atmosphere Jane somehow manages to "retreat deeper into a body and spirit she no longer recognizes," eventually emerging determined to succeed. This book is really a high school pre-med's fairy tale disguised as a Bildungsroman...