Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent book of Henry Cabot Lodge is the fall edition of the Hymn of Hate. It is a futile effort at self-defense-an apology weakly put forth; a retreat without a single handsome feature. No one could expect, from a pen dipped in venom, a fair or impartial appraisement of Woodrow Wilson; especially from one who, where Woodrow Wilson's policies were concerned, was incapable of having a generous thought. It is regrettable, indeed, that at the end of his so distinguished a career a man should have put his great talents to so base...
...once does this happen, but again and again. The plumbing in Farnsworth is an old offender. If there is no other remedy, why not sacrifice luxury to comfort and move the reserved volumes to some retreat in the basement where at least there is quiet...
Slowly the French were compelled to retire on Fez, fighting every inch of the way against impossible odds. At one point of the offensive, retreat was cut in the rear, and their position, desperate to say the least, was eased only by a glorious counteroffensive in which the hottest fighting of the war occurred. Two days' fighting drove the Riffians back into the hills and once again relieved Fez from imminent danger...
...would establish an air base between Etah, Greenland (the expedition's intended boat base) and Cape Columbia, Grant Land (intended take-off for flights seeking the Pole and fabulous Crocker Land). Here gasoline, food, a radio-operator, smoke-bombs, an Eskimo and dog (for forced retreat), would be left...
Riff troops, joined suddenly by tribes hitherto friendly to the French, pounded their enemies along a 120-mile front, forcing them to retreat in many places...