Word: retreater
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What does this sudden flood of icebergs mean? Was the ice shelf, as most scientists think, responding to its own internal rhythms of expansion and retreat? Or was it reacting, through some connection in the ocean perhaps, to the general warming that has taken place almost everywhere else...
...Mesopotamian nation building. It has been attempted on this same ground many times before, by many other superpowers, and none--none--has ever succeeded. The last to try was England. Winston Churchill, a superhawk hero of the 20th century, ran the occupation, saw the futility of it and favored retreat. "We are paying 8 millions a year," he wrote his Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, in 1922, "for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano...
...strikes typically caused more nuisance than harm. Ghani's confession, however, suggested that for the first time anti-U.S. forces were creeping back from their hideouts across the Pakistani border and regrouping in large numbers. Their aim is to pour heavy fire on the Americans, forcing them to retreat from their isolated bases...
...tree near the stupa, professed amazement at the vehemence of opposition to his proposal and offered to postpone it. In a drastic departure from standard procedure in this rigidly hierarchical nation, the governor invited the people of Borobudur to draw up their own plan. Immediately after General Mardiyanto called retreat, the opposition seemed giddy, almost stunned by its victory. But suspicion soon crept in that this might be a ruse. One young firebrand told me, "Now we are entering the world of games." In the past, Indonesian government officials have been shameless about making cheery promises to gloss over problems...
...centuries later, the island palace was called upon for sanctuary again. During an Indian revolt against the British in 1857, dozens of European women and children took refuge under its graceful domes. Today the Jagmandir remains a retreat, if from nothing more threatening than the bustle of a sweltering Udaipur afternoon. A motorboat from the City Palace jetty ($3 a person for the round trip) will take you to the island's small pier, which is guarded by eight life-size marble elephants. The newly opened Darikhana Restaurant serves alfresco Indian and continental feasts for about $8 per head...