Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creation of James Bond made up for that lack. It returned him an estimated million dollars a year over the past decade and permitted the luxury of a London town house just across the road from Buckingham Palace, a vast apartment by the sea at Sandwich, a Jamaican retreat called Goldeneye, and comfortable, carpeted offices just off Fleet Street...
...years old, that Ted Shawn is 72. Yet the dance they performed, choreographed by Shawn, taken from a poem by St. Denis, was in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary. It was the latest of countless new works that have been premiered at Jacob's Pillow, the sylvan retreat in Massachusetts' rolling Berkshire hills that Ted Shawn founded 31 years...
...investor was doing much of the selling, and the tape ran late nine times during the week, once for 16 minutes. But there was no panic, and trading volume stayed extraordinarily low for most of the week. Professionals figured that, in any case, the market needed an excuse to retreat after a heady climb, guessed that there was a good deal of plain old profit taking. At the most bearish hour last week, Indicator Digest, an investment advisory service, issued a special bulletin: "Emotional war jitters have always culminated in good buying opportunities." True enough, but wary professionals were...
...With the French engaged in their war against the Communist Viet Minh, Khanh led his paratroopers in a jump onto the Hoabinh battlefield of North Viet Nam, scene of a French defeat that was only slightly less disastrous than Dienbienphu, carried out a valiant rearguard action covering the French retreat. Khanh finished the war, in which he was wounded (he still likes to pull up his shirt to show his scars), as a lieutenant colonel in charge of a regimental combat team...
...snip of gardeners cutting back foliage. Inside, men clad in shorts, slacks and sports shirts sat beneath an oak-beamed ceiling. Idyllic? No, pedagogic. The men were policymakers from 35 U.S. business firms, spending six weeks in an atmosphere that is part classroom, part sales conference and part religious retreat at the 25th session of Columbia University's Executive Program in Business Administration...