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I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Alienated
Some
Totally
Retreated
Reporters
In Vietnam, we took a hill and defeated the enemy; then we retreated and let the enemy take over.
Jeff Duncan
Enemy
Took
Take
Over
Retreated
Hill
Then
Vietnam
Defeated
Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
Terry Eagleton
Age
Political
Back
Sphere
Poetry
Retreated
Most
Private
Modern
Modern Age
Turning
Realm
Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.
Don Young
God
Remember
Community
Some
Arctic
Glaciers
Open
Had
Retreated
Passage
Were
Covered
Huge
Scotland
Any
Northwest
Ice
Iceland
Farming
Grapes
Villages
Found
Wide
Raising
I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.
Pamela Sue Martin
Life
Mountains
Living
Worry
Minutiae
About
Having
More
Tend
Idaho
Retreated
Am
Fame
Tune
The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.
Richard Leakey
People
Problem
Once
Corridor
Area
Retreated
Safer
Decade
Moved
Heavy
Used
Now
Elephants