Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flagler campus has been Harvard's Spring retreat for the past few seasons and is one of those ultra-Floridian places where academics take a back seat to golf. The campus, as Fitzgibbons explains, "used to be a resort hotel, and the attitude hasn't really changed that much...
...Shah. West Germany and France, both of which are big buyers of Iranian oil, make clear that he would not be welcome, while Britain, where the family owns a 166-acre estate outside London, is distinctly cool to his living there. Even Switzerland, the Shah's favorite vacation retreat, where he has extensive bank accounts and major property holdings including a villa near Saint-Moritz, acknowledges that a visit by the Shah would require prior Cabinet approval...
...splendid victory," cried Hanoi, claiming that the "badly defeated" Chinese troops had been forced into a humiliating retreat by "a vigorous retaliatory blow from our army and our people...
...Vietnamese leaders regard themselves as messianic representatives of the purest revolutionary movement in the world. They are affected, if you will, by an arrogance of power." Combined with the arrogance is the urging of Moscow, which moved into the power vacuum left behind by the U.S. retreat. There is some small justification for the argument that the U.S. may have driven Viet Nam into the Soviet embrace last summer when it spurned Hanoi's modest attempts at reconciliation...
...road a piece from Macon and a middling way from Atlanta. Her isolation there began involuntarily. At 25 she was already a noteworthy Southern expatriate and a prizewinning graduate of the University of Iowa's School for Writers. She had put in time at Yaddo, an artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., along with luminous fellow guests like Robert Lowell. She had settled down in the Connecticut household of Poet Robert Fitzgerald, his wife Sally and a brood of small children, working on a novel optioned by a New York publisher. Then she was hit with disseminated lupus...