Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though a preventive war with the support of England was unthinkable, action on the part of the other Powers might have meant chaos at home, rather than incur which threat he probably would have been quite willing to retreat to "previously prepared positions...
Statistically, NRA was on the verge of a significant retreat: from a maximum 600 codes affecting 22,000,000 workers to about 320 codes affecting some...
Whether these new cases are an indication of a fresh attack on the part of the rash-producing microbes or merely a half-hearted rally before the final retreat, is still a matter of conjecture...
...read nothing but the Soviet Peasants' Gazette this sounded like the acme of sound facts and good sense, yet Hearstian Yakovlev drew loudest cheers, a veritable acclamation, by another part of his discourse. In this he announced as undramatically as he could Joseph Stalin's most sensational retreat on the agricultural front thus...
Roosevelt has recognized the choice and has emphatically voted "no". Misguided, uninformed, and unscrupulous opposition groups have overridden his expressed desire. He has gone too far to retreat now. Even this magical manipulator of ideas and men cannot reconcile the irreconcilable. Unless re-consideration is forced in Congress, the presidential vote must be invoked. If so, we may expect a truly Herculean combat between the executive and the legislature which will be the strongest test of Roosevelt's power and character that has yet arisen...