Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took autoshop. My dad made me take it because he was afraid of me breaking down on the highway. The only time I ever used what I learned was at the Kappa Alpha Theta retreat when my friend, Beth, couldn't get her car started...
...behold a large whitewashed room well-equipped with lamps, a chalkboard, a table with chairs and a grand piano. With large windows on every wall, this classic chamber's panoramic view is unbeatable. Best of all, privacy is ensured because the key to the door of this beautiful retreat is given out only to one party at a time...
Such attention to detail is just what German del Sol had in mind when he designed the 30-room Explora hotel five years ago. "We wanted to create a place for tourists to spend a week without worrying about survival or unnecessary sacrifices," he says of his $7 million retreat in the windswept Torres del Paine National Park in Patagonia, a six-hour drive from Punta Arenas, Chile's southernmost city. "We aim to soften the roughness of nature...
...country today. This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days...We face the arduous...
Mitchell and Drew tried to beat a fast retreat, but construction workers who saw gunsmoke rising from the woods tipped off the police. Two officers chased the boys down as they were heading toward their getaway van. They offered only slight resistance, and the police easily disarmed them of nine guns (another gun was found on the ground). Said Officer Terry McNatt, "They didn't say anything." They stayed silent for the entire drive to the Craighead County sheriff's office...