Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their way into the Extensive Pen. The lone male sought company, but the overcrowded company sought lebensraum." When a young doe was placed in the Extensive Pen, the lone male ignored her. But when a strong adult buck was introduced, he attacked with verve and compelled the newcomer to retreat. Then the lone male returned to his patrol of the dividing fence...
...long time ago, in Africa, Isak Dinesen saw two lions attack an ox. Unarmed but for a stock whip, she flew at the kings of the jungle and lashed them into retreat...
Gradually Kong Le's men retreated-to the outskirts of town, then to the airport (his only supply line to the Communists). Caught in a deadly barrage, 1,500 surrendered and the rest fled into the jungle country that the Pathet Lao controls. As Vientiane counted its dead (an estimated 200), TIME Reporter James Wilde cabled: "The streets were littered with broken glass, shattered bricks, mangled cars, shell cases, abandoned trucks and Jeeps. In the center of town I passed bodies covered with a cloth or a bamboo mat. Funeral pyres lit the sky. Here and there the sidewalks...
...town, he does his part with no questions asked. Men, women and children are methodically shot down, the church burned with all who had gone there to seek sanctuary. To make his creaky plot hold together, Ustinov has Hans fall in love with a Florentine prostitute during the German retreat. When, quite out of character, he comes back to find her, he is sniffed out by the police and pursued as a war criminal...
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Opening as the new Prime Minister utters his first statement to Commons-"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"-the third episode portrays the retreat through Western Europe and the Dunkirk evacuation...