Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first has had 'the finger' put on him by undue publicity-unless one has had just a taste of Colonel Lindbergh's experience with a press that respects no law and knows no decency-it may not be possible to understand that this is a retreat after repeated defeats by unfair odds...
...Baldwin, an able politician, and Captain Eden, an able diplomat, cleverly left open avenues of retreat from The Deal. They professed that the League of Nations was to decide everything. Three days later at Geneva suave Eden, although the whole London Press was printing columns about the Government's "reversal of policy," had the British crust to say officially: "The policy of His Majesty's Government remains unchanged...
...days the frantic occupants of the rooms won a temporary victory by leaving the windows wide open, but although driven into a strategic retreat by freezing winds, the carrions were able to hold out longer without food than the Yearlings without warmth...
Unlike most accounts of the Russian campaign. Napoleon's victories seem, in Caulaincourt's account, almost more 'terrible than the famed retreat from Moscow. Day after day Napoleon's army raced after the fleeing Russians, whose complete disappearance seemed more mysterious and frightening as the troops became exhausted. None of Napoleon's spies returned. Counting on peasants to supply information and food, he found the country deserted. Believing that a battle would lead Alexander to sue for peace, he feverishly pursued an army that spread so widely he could scarcely determine the direction...
High point of With Napoleon in Russia is the description of Napoleon's taking of Moscow, a triumph literally turned to ashes. Before the retreat, as the advance guard pushed on, Napoleon and most of his staff were nearly captured when the army and wandering Cossacks unexpectedly collided. During the retreat, Caul-aincourt saw refugees who were clinging to wagons fall off, be crushed beneath the wheels, while stupefied drivers were heartened at the lightening of their loads. He saw horses that fell, torn apart for food before they were killed. Pursuer and pursued mixed in a vast mass...