Word: retreating
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...beat a hasty retreat, Mrs. Eliot nailed you and sent you inside as an example to all your classmates...
That issue has plagued Ardito Barletta's candidacy from the beginning. A slender, bespectacled former Panamanian Planning Minister and vice president of the World Bank, he was picked as a presidential nominee by Panama's military chieftains, led by Noriega, shortly before their constitutionally mandated "retreat" from politics this year. Ardito Barletta's ascendancy is resented even by some members of his Revolutionary Democratic Party. Nonetheless, he has achieved grudging acceptance, largely because of fear that the military may decide to retake power...
...closest followers by never once visiting the state of Israel. In the U.S., he created the progressive, or "Modern," wing of Orthodoxy by synthesizing tradition and contemporary culture; but paradoxically for Soloveitchik, now that Orthodoxy is well established in the U.S.,* it tends increasingly to reject his outlook and retreat behind sectarian walls...
...cardboard cutouts. Wooster rambles in and out about his-life-and-so-on until he eventually arrives in the dramatic Promised Land, the arrival of the indespensible Jeeves. The conversation cum soliliquy is punctuated throughout by Wooster's belly laugh, a "MAHAhaha" that would put an armored battalion in retreat...
There is wide difference of opinion in South Africa over whether the electoral changes represent a strengthening of apartheid or are the first steps in a long retreat. Says Helen Suzman, an opposition M.P. and one of the government's most articulate opponents: "The new constitution is based on apartheid. It leaves out the best feature (of a democratic system), namely universal franchise under the rule of law." Zulu Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, a leading black moderate, has declared that those who participated in the recent elections were committing a "mammoth betrayal" of the black population. On the other hand...