Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President and his allies are interested in preserving appearances, their best bet is to find a method of graceful retreat. But until the dim day when they decide that Chiang's islands are expendable, they should not attempt to squelch or denigrate public opinion on this matter...
...Dulles did not retreat an inch from U.S. principles, and he tried hard to make restive U.S. allies see why. "We would find acceptable any arrangement," said he in a Manhattan address...
...first five or six years after the retreat to Formosa, the Generalissimo regularly spoke of reconquering the mainland "next year." Today it has become "soon" or "when the time is ripe." Aware of U.S. fears that a Nationalist attack on the mainland might lead to World War III, Chiang has also come to emphasize that "there is no need for a world war or for the U.S. to participate, directly...
Last week, dismayed by this mass exodus, East Germany's Red masters were in full retreat. On second thought, the East German Politburo decided that "the practice of the medical and teaching professions does not require an outlook based on dialectical materialism. Doctors and other intellectuals who have other beliefs can continue their work unhindered." Ulbricht himself, all but begging the intellectuals to stop running away, solemnly promised that henceforth doctors' and scientists' children would be admitted to high schools "even if they have worse school records than children from the working classes...
...with his thesis completed and five years at Harvard behind him, Labaree took a welcome respite from the arid Cambridge world and in his retreat found a teaching nook at Connecticut College for Women--long and forever in need of additional unattached male talent on their staff. "I had a little place in Mystic, just far enough from the 850 females on campus." Just far enough away, that is, to minimize social pressures from the 800 students, not to mention the faculty members...