Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artillery and air strikes to shield them. Helicopters dumped nausea gas directly onto the enemy. Though its lines were breached at several points, Delta Company held its ground, and by next morning, two Marine companies were helilifted to the rescue. They caught the North Vietnamese as they attempted to retreat and killed 130 of them...
...gregarious. "I don't go on the road much any more," says Gerry. "The marriage is working. Of course, you have to like cats." The cats pretty well preclude inviting people in, though Sandy's recently divorced mother presides over most of the menagerie at the Weston retreat. Sandy doesn't like gadding about, anyway. Still a keen reader, she rips through nearly a book a day, is currently working on English and Russian history...
...Delicate Balance. "Where there is an appeal to authority, especially institutional authority, in our time," says the report, "it is likely to be made for the wrong reason, to establish a refuge from the bewildering uncertainties of our life. Such retreat from encounter is an enemy to true theological or social inquiry...
...unchallenged for quite a while. If Congress heeds President Johnson's call for a 10% income tax surcharge (see THE NATION), it could ease the monetary pressures that have lifted interest rates to monumental peaks. The mere presidential request for higher taxes set off a small retreat in municipal bond yields, from an average 3.98% to 3.91% for 20-year issues. And big investors scurried to snap up the last half of the big A. T. & T. debentures, which they had been spurning on the ground that the rate should have even been higher. Many corporations postpone bond offerings...
Perhaps their quest is for what they find: hostility, hallucination, more intense dislocation, the last retreat of death-Bowles doesn't say. After several novels, books of stories and essays, he is still the inscrutable artist. He fixes his characters in his own hopeless wastelands and in the reader's shocked consciousness. His warped people are beyond help because they will not help themselves. They have surrendered, and Bowles, the devil's advocate, grinds them further into defeat. He is American fiction's leading specialist in melancholy and insensate violence...