Word: retreatism
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After systematically whittling down the playing field, Fitzpatrick, in tandem with running back Clifton Dawson, punished the Huskies for their earlier retreat. The backfield duo accounted for five touchdowns—none from more than 13 yards...
Barrett was standing on one side of my long futon, about to turn around in frustration and retreat to her bed and the blissful ignorance of sleep. I was standing on the other side, wringing a red sweater in my hands and trying to figure out why we had fallen from grace...
...discussion of meaning, even if he was only applying an a priori cultural norm. The most I can do right now is admit that the Disney Hall looks pretty damn cool and wax poetic about my experience of it. Of course I’m not really planning to retreat into nostalgia for the unproblematic meaning of the past, but I don’t intend to spend my future passing judgments on what’s cool and what’s not, either. We may have a long way to go before we start seeing meaning again...
...newspapers. The cumulative burdens helped explain Blair's surprise pre-operative pledge to quit before the end of his next term - assuming he gets re-elected - probably around his 10-year mark in office. This officially starts his transformation to lame duck. At least he'll have somewhere to retreat to: the Blairs have just bought a $6.5 million house in a posh London neighborhood...
When the Harvard Social Forum (HSF) was conceived last March, its founders did not expect it to outlive its first weekend. As far as they were concerned, the organization would begin and end with a massive three-day retreat; seminars on activism would be held, workshops teaching political involvement attended and progressive speeches delivered and that would be that...