Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stop me from coming here. Why should it?" wondered the recently ascended Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Arthur Michael Ramsey, 56, as he and his wife padded about their 20-year vacation retreat: an antique pub in rural Devonshire. Paying $29.40 a week room and board, the Primate of All England now and again abandoned his customary gaiters to tromp the neighboring moors, in a vacation ensemble of cloth cap, tweed sports jacket and flannel bags. As for the inner man. the Archbishop appeared to find the pub's cuisine quite as appealing as that of Lambeth Palace...
Estateliest of the Kennedy homes is Jack and Jackie Kennedy's rented, 14-room French Provincial winter weekend retreat, Glen Ora. in Virginia's tweedy hunt country. Built in 1810. Glen Ora is decorated in manored elegance: Louis XV and Regency chairs in the drawing room, a Duncan Phyfe table and Hepplewhite chairs in the dining room. The President's bedroom is off-white with a three-quarter mahogany sleigh bed, a mahogany bureau, and a red and white slipcovered lounge chair; Jackie's bedroom has twin beds, a French desk, and is papered...
Jimmy Riddle, by Ian Brook. The author observes, not kindly, the retreat of the British empire in Africa in this spoof of everyone up to the Prime Minister and down to visiting U.S. anthropologists...
...special to offer the voters. Still Ben-Gurion stumped the land, promising pay raises to workers and civil servants and boasting of national progress. In a whirlwind 24-hour period, he finished his campaign by speaking in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa before going off to Sde Boker, his retreat in the Negev desert. He went confidently to bed before the polls closed, slept soundly until 7 next morning. Said his admiring wife Paula: "Ben-Gurion is like a radio. When he wants to go to sleep, he closes down. When he wants to rise, he opens...
Later, as he ordered the retreat from Blackpool, Masters was faced with the decision of what to do with 19 hopelessly wounded stretcher cases-"the first man was quite naked and a shell had removed the entire contents of his stomach . . . another seemed to have been torn in pieces by a mad giant." To avoid holding up the retreat. Masters ordered the men shot. "One by one, carbine shots exploded curtly behind me. I put my hands over my ears, but nothing could shut out the sound ... I muttered, 'I'm sorry,' and 'Forgive...