Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another for her affections, the winner being the one who got to go into downtown Cleveland with her on Saturdays. Something like this lingers on in Hope's relationships with his writers. He watches over them as if they were children. He always knows where they are. No retreat in New York, Europe or the Far East is so secluded that Hope can't track down one of his writers who happens to be hiding there. And he always has a favorite...
...letter from Merton accepting the citation, read by the Rt. Rev. George Casey, did not have the hopeful tone of Melman's talk. Merton, writing from a Trappist monastery in Jerusalem, said that because of his retreat from society he was not entitled to the citation. He accepted, however, because he said, at the exceptional...
...called it a "slap in the face" to such responsible test ban proponents as Macmillan and Kennedy. The New York Herald Tribune held that the prize's esteem had slipped through association with "a placarding peacenik." As for Pauling, who got the news at his Big Sur, Calif., retreat, he remembered that the test ban had that morning gone into effect. "I thought," said he quietly, "that it was a nice day for the committee to make the announcement...
...gadarawa," this time each group being accompanied by their own troupe of drummers and hornblowers, and each vying with the other to enhance the general cacophany. Then, for a second time, the warriors took the field. Again the mock battle was repeatedly enacted, an advance here, a retreat there, until the crowd was cheering wildly...
...First Lady watched from a white speedboat while her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill, went water skiing on Vouliagmene Bay. Later she was driven 26 miles to Tatoi Palace, a forested retreat in the foothills of Mount Parnes, for tea with King Paul and Queen Frederika...