Word: retreating
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...Vierra's grounder to the right side hit the advancing DiCesare. It was an automatic single for Vierra, but DiCesare became the second out of the inning, and Allard--because the ball was automatically ruled dead when it hit DiCesare--had to retreat to third. Center fielder Bruce Weller's ground out left the bases loaded...
...Boston Symphony. The patrician Boston Symphony is the quintessential major orchestra: old (101) and wealthy, with a comfortable home in the acoustically excellent Symphony Hall and a bucolic summer retreat at Tanglewood, in the Berkshires. A11 this would not be worth much, though, if the orchestra did not play so consistently well: under music directors as disparate in taste and talents as Serge Koussevitzky, Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf and, now, Seiji Ozawa, 47, it has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to adapt to almost any type of music conductorial style. Boston's full strings, warm winds and elegant brass...
...only course of action open to me was to become a man, to make a panicky retreat from feminity. Considering my previous futile efforts in this direction, it was hard to have much faith in this scheme; but I attacked it with a vigor born of desperation. I had to make it work...
After cheering up EPA employees last week, Ruckelshaus made courtesy calls on Capitol Hill, even as six congressional panels continued their probes into wrongdoing at the agency. Although he is expected to win Senate confirmation easily, congressional critics remain poised to pounce at the first sign of Administration retreat from environmental protection. "Whatever stars they bring in," said Georgia Democrat Elliott Levitas, chairman of a House subcommittee investigating the EPA, "it won't matter if they're working the same sad script...
Breaking for lunch, Brown and Sprague retreat to the wheelhouse to sip coffee from a thermos bottle and eat oysters fresh from the bay. "Can't find anything better than these," says Brown as he dips an oyster into a potent sauce made of vinegar and red and black pepper...