Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side note at the end of this speech was the appearance of a blue-robed figure wearing a crown of blue and gold, a Neptune from the grimy sea, who noisily strode onto the floor and then beat a hasty retreat. It turned out that the figure was a reunioning member of the Class...
...Bund, the British cruiser Capetown lay at anchor, with a private telephone cable running ashore. At retreat, night after night, Chinese ashore had heard the ship's band playing the Capetown's special quickstep, and it was that same march that the Chinese band of grateful General Yeh Peng blared through the corridors of Asiatic Petroleum Co. while his officers, bearing their banner with its strange device, tramped onward...
...Franco-Russian accord and seemed likely to cost Germany all her recent gains with Poland. Private reports from Premier Göring's secret conversations with France's Laval in Poland showed that now if ever was the time to curry favor by beating a strategic retreat. That it should seem no retreat at all to Nazi ears, Realmleader Hitler shrewdly decided to beat it in as loud a voice as possible. When he finally stepped from the rostrum last week, Der Führer was so hoarse he could scarcely speak...
Wagner Bill. In order to put a stop to this retreat, the A. F. of L. wanted: 1) a ban on company unions; 2) power for the Labor Relations Board to compel labor elections in any plant; 3) the right to give orders to all employes of a business once it succeeded in organizing a bare majority. These three things the Wagner Bill provides...
...Bolsheviks never retreat. Now before the bodies of our dead warriors, before the wreck of the Gorki, we pledge ourselves to build a still more powerful and more beautiful airplane...