Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again and again Madrid proletarians were driven in mad, screaming retreat, but again and again their shattered lines reformed to attempt fresh resistance with Spanish stubbornness, then suffer another rout. Meanwhile, smiling Generalissimo Franco was exhibiting his other distinctive characteristics: caution, thoroughness, quick decision, forehandedness. The steep-banked Manzanares River still lay between him and the capital and he knew its six bridges were heavily mined, but along with attending to military details he was also ready with his own White police force and his own skeleton force of civil servants ready to install them in the Government buildings which...
...attitude should prevail. In their desire to have a winning team at any price the undergraduates of Virginia have indicted amateurism for crimes it never could have committed, and their cry, instead of being a call to a better world of sport, is nothing but the last shriek of retreat...
...line if he has recently secured from Dictator Stalin a secret treaty of Soviet-Chinese military assistance. No evidence of this had come to light, but the Japanese have believed for many months that the Chinese Communists were "leading the way for Chiang's troops" in their peculiar retreat through seven Chinese provinces and that this must have been by secret agreement between Moscow and Nanking. Chinese darkly suspect Japan and Germany of having a secret treaty of military assistance...
...particularly the fiscal stewardship of the government, must be revamped. In these things, as in relief and public works, definite, workable plans must be substituted for general charges. Similarly, the Republicans must make specific their programs for peace, neutrality, and the limitation of war profits, make definite their retreat from the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, their objections to out-Stimsoning Stimson in the Pacific...
...Chukoti becomes the sole purpose of Vickers' 27th Lancers. Its chance comes at the siege of Sebastopol where Surat Khan, now allied with Russia, is holding the heights of Balaklava opposite the Lancers, stationed in the valley. When Headquarters gives him the orders for his regiment to retreat, Geoffrey rewrites them as a command to attack. The brigade moves forward, under withering fire, to simultaneous vindication and destruction...