Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purge China of Communism." Unfortunately all this meant nothing whatever. Chang has always been an absolute autocrat in his own dominions. He has told correspondents almost every day for at least a year that his armies were going to "purge China of Communism"; but those armies were in retreat last week toward Peking, driven from South China by the great "Nationalist" Generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, June 13). It seemed not unlikely that "Dictator" Chang was sounding last week the first brave notes of his swan dirge. At any rate, the Occidental diplomats at Peking did not honor his "inauguration...
...sanatorium, a high and chilly retreat, the perspective of life changes. With death for a background, massive and eccentric as the high Alps, the caperings of man seem puny by comparison. The idiotic decadence, the absurdly microscopic preoccupations of humanity are emphasized by their isolation...
...telegraph and aeroplane. Similar conditions now exist in most of the towns and cities along the Mississippi. When the levee broke near Greenville, Mississippi, which is a prosperous city of 10,000 people, the water rose to a height of fifteen feet. Those with means were able to retreat to other places but there were many negro families who were obliged to take refuge on the tops of the levees, where they are now living without proper shelter, sanitation, drinking water, and other necessities of life. The same situation applies to many other places along the Mississippi...
...free trade, women's suffrage, child labor laws, free speech. The journalistic tradition of which he is heir was originally voiced by his Abolitionist grandfather, William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the Liberator: "I am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not ex-cuse-I will not retreat a single inch- AND I WILL BE HEARD...
...They are mentally unbalanced-sick souls who need ministration. We need a renaissance of what our fathers used to know as evangelical preaching. We Protestants have thrown out beauty of service, the confessional and the old-style evangelical preaching that used to fill me with thoughts of hell. We retreat to discussing themes instead of wrestling with human souls for life or death." Alert Editor Michael Williams of the Commonweal, learned Roman Catholic weekly comparable to the Protestant Christian Century, hastened to explain the Catholic Confession-telling sins to a priest authorized to give absolution.* He added: "Psychoanalysis has shown...