Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been Model T Ford. General Motors Corp., on the other hand, spreads its shots. It sends out a car to strike every purse-Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Oakland, Buick, LaSalle, Cadillac. It carefully picks up its dead shells and turns them into electric refrigerators, an effective barrage to cover a retreat. It invests in real estate. It trains its bullets on markets far afield, on Europe, on Australia, scattering its products all over the globe...
...British, long deaf to Nationalist complaints against their joyriding over Chinese territory, forthwith cut the railroad line between Shanghai, Hangchow and Ningpo, thus halting the Nationalist retreat from the oncoming Northern army...
...York Times took an amused and friendly view, calling the photographers' retreat a "good-humored" one and the plate-throwing an imperious "bit of temperament...
...Five airplanes are seen at 3 p.m. They approach in battle formation; then they get in line, flying low, and open fire with their machine guns. They drop bombs on Sandino's army, which now is beginning to retreat...
...facts just cited make clear that an attempt to invade Soviet Russia might be set in motion at any time by the mere fiat of Grand Duke Nikolai. At 71 he still retains the majestic presence and shrewd acumen which enabled him to carry out the masterly Russian "retreat without victory" in 1915 to new lines so well chosen that they .held against Imperial Germany for two years more...