Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since his defeat at the Democratic Convention last summer, intimates have sensed in him a deep desire to retreat al most entirely from public prominence...
...Quiet Retreat...
Although it is possible to exaggerate the decline of the Wasp, who has never really left the center of U.S. power, he is indisputably in an historical retreat. The big change came with the waves of migration from Europe in the 19th century, when many of his citadels-the big cities-were wrested from his political control. In a quiet fallback, the Wasps founded gilded ghettos-schools and suburbs, country clubs and summer colonies...
...Congress, Powell was banished in 1967 on charges that he misused some $40,000 of public funds. Now he had returned from exile. Re-elected by his faithful Harlem constituency six weeks after his expulsion, and re-elected again in November, the wayward sheep was back from his retreat on the Caribbean isle of Bimini, ready and anxious to rejoin the fold. For five hours, the House debated the issue of reseating Powell, airing in the process nearly all his public and private transgressions. Then its members voted 251 to 160 to let Powell take his seat. From the rear...
...partisans. One group, armed with parachuted weapons, carried on by blasting freight trains and ambushing German patrols in and around Monte Sole, the most prominent peak of a collection of modest Apennines 15 miles south of Bologna. Because Monte Sole lay directly in the "path of Kesselring's retreat route, its partisans represented a serious threat to orderly German withdrawal...