Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet...
...equally disconcerting. The film interweaves clips indiscriminately, as if James Mason as Rommel in The Desert Rats were as valid a reflection of the African cam paign as authentic shots of Rommel himself. Director Winslow's cheapest shot is a reverse-action sequence depicting the German retreat: to the tune of Get Back, Hitler is made to cha cha cha back and forth like the cat in the Purina Cat Chow commercial...
...life spanned some of the most glorious years of modern British history and some of the most traumatic-from the empire's pinnacle at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, through two devastating wars, to the humiliating retreat from Suez in 1956 and the prospect of devolution at home. For three decades he was a highly visible, thoroughly photogenic presence at international conferences, almost boyishly handsome even in middle age. Sartorially splendid in the Savile Row tradition, he looked and talked like an MGM image of a British diplomat. But his long career in politics and foreign policy involved...
...Conference of Mayors said the plan did not do enough to help cities. The AFL-CIO, led by George Meany, got downright caustic. It adopted a statement calling the program "a retreat from the goals which we understand President-elect Carter to have set during last year's election campaign." The goal the council had in mind was cutting unemployment by 1½ percentage points this year; to do that, the labor leaders want a stimulus of as much as $30 billion in 1977 alone, with most of the money going directly to federal job programs. Most surprising...
...those who want other battles -or other wars-there will be plenty more. Cross of Iron is the story of the German retreat across Russia after Stalingrad; Dog Soldiers revolves around three Viet Nam veterans who become involved with both heroin and the CIA; and The Eagle Has Landed is a fictional account of a German attempt to kidnap Winston Churchill. The towering Tory, a famous old brandy sniffer, would at least like the casting. He is portrayed by the proprietor of the Beehive, a country pub in Kent...