Word: retreating
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...NATO's 1979 "double-track" strategy: to pursue both the deployment of new medium-range weapons and an agreement on their limitation. Although he was careful to propose marginal Soviet "concessions" in order to achieve at least the appearance of continued flexibility, Andropov asserted that Moscow "will not retreat" from its stance that a nuclear balance now exists in Europe. Any new U.S. missiles, he insisted, would "sharply change the entire military strategic situation to NATO's advantage...
...Golding a "coup" and described the new laureate as "decent but hardly in the Nobel Prize class." Lars Gyllensten, permanent secretary of the academy, countered this objection by saying Lundkvist has "the soul of a magpie" and then announced, a day later, that the maverick "has beaten a retreat and acknowledged that Golding is worthy of the prize...
Chiang ascended the steps and went immediately to his mother's grave, a simple mound of grass-covered earth surrounded by a wall of brown sandstone, where he meditated for 20 minutes. He then turned, entered his retreat...
...Friends!" he began. "This is a day of national consecration. . . . The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance...
Fantasy took flight in their songs, from Yellow Submarine's childlike picture of a carefree existence beneath the waves to the vastly more complex and ominous vision in Strawberry Fields Forever of a retreat from uncertainty into a psychedelic copout. Its four separate meters, freewheeling modulations and titillating tonal trappings, showed that the Beatles had flowered as musicians. They learned to bend and stretch the pop-song mold, enriched their harmonic palette with modal colors, mixed in cross-rhythms, and pinched the classical devices of composers from Bach to Stockhausen. They supplemented their guitar sound with strings, baroque trumpets...