Word: rearguard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proud to be the rearguard of such a gallant group of men," he said. But he did not dwell on the drama of the occasion, or say much about that vast host, once so young, so fierce, so frightened, so deadly, and now gone except for him. The drummer boy was so old that none of it really seemed important. He said happily that he had shoveled the walk six times during the winter, and still smoked eight cigars...
...resignation that sometimes dresses itself up in a splendid refusal to surrender, a defiant rejection of the unconditional terms that life demands. Hemingway, Faulkner, Graham Greene, J. P. Marquand, Elizabeth Bowen, Evelyn Waugh-they all record, in their various manners, the hopeless valor, the quiet desperation of a rearguard action, a doomed though indomitable next-to-last stand...
Last week a Paris exhibit of unknown Marquet drawings showed that he was not always the serious, hard-working rearguard painter most people thought him. As relaxation from his more ambitious oils, Marquet had strolled the streets of Paris, doing maliciously observant sketches of the people he saw. In a few deft strokes, a blob of black ink or a casual crosshatching, he caught the posture and movement of a speeding cyclist, a barmaid scratching her head, an old fiacre driver waiting for a fare, a bemused, potbellied pedestrian...
...last April that "Old Soldiers Never Die," he set off wild scramble in Hollywood to sew up he phrase as title for a movie (TIME, April 30). Twentieth Century-Fox won the registration race, and the title was assigned o a story about an infantry platoon's galant rearguard action in Korea. Last week, with the film nearing completion, the company dropped the label as "not suitable." Slew title: Fixed Bayonets...
...ruffle the little Long Island village whose hopeful name the U.N. had made famous in the far corners of the world. No ceremony marked the occasion. In the committee rooms, where Molotov, Gromyko, Malik had ranted and been answered by the champions of the free world, a rearguard of U.N. staffers stuffed their briefcases with forgotten oddments. War workers from the Sperry Gyroscope Co. (which is taking over the whole of its buildings for expanded war production) were crowding the huge cafeteria where Foreign Ministers, stenographers and visiting movie stars had stood in patient lines for lunch. Two U.N. staffers...