Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ferocious hitter, were favored by the aficionados over the wiry Spanish brother team, Manolo and Joaquin Balet, sons of a wealthy Catalonian textile manufacturer and oldtime pelota champion. While the Mexican team led a carefree tourist life before the match, Papa Balet whisked his sons off to a secluded retreat...
...admissions office a vote of thanks for the changed attitude of the girls," Miss Cook said. The policy of accepting applicants from wider sections of the country and expanding scholarship aid to give educations to those otherwise unable to afford them has been the cause of apathy's retreat, she felt...
Curley began by saying that he would certainly apply for a pension, cracked: "What's in a name? If my name were Frothingham, Shattuck or even Nichols, there would be no objections." But the public fury grew ominously. By week's end the Democrats were in full retreat. Curley announced he would not accept the pension after all. Governor Dever gave in, called a special session to meet this week and go over the whole question of pensions for pols...
...that her daughter is Queen, with title to the Balmoral estate in Scotland, Queen Mother Elizabeth announced that she had bought a separate summer retreat for herself. The place which caught her eye: 400-year-old Barrogill Castle, seven miles from John o'Groats and 20 miles from the nearest railway station...
Pure Food & Drug Act. Collier's, then a leading muckraking magazine, hired Sullivan as a regular contributor and sent him to Washington, where he became such a crony of Teddy Roosevelt's that the President used to let him use his Virginia retreat during the summer. Soon Sullivan was editor of Collier...