Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor recognizes this is a crucial struggle and is anxious to gain some advantage. It is afraid to retreat or to appear to be yielding. Hence the search in the last 48 hours for the usual alibi to save everybody's face. Every plan thus far has looked toward some supervision of elections to determine who the chosen spokesmen of the workers really are. Labor gains by every such device because Government supervision of elections thus far has merely meant postponing local elections till the labor organizers are sure of a majority...
...implication in some published reports that Mr. Roosevelt seeks to escape personal responsibility is an unwarranted assumption. For the President is not the kind of man who "passes the buck" to others. He has said publicly that when he makes a mistake, he will acknowledge it and retreat...
...action of the President in ordering a curtailment of army flying is such a retreat. It is the abandonment of an experiment that proved tragic. The death of ten army mail flyers persuaded Mr. Roosevelt to act quickly. But when he recommends that the pending legislation be passed at once, the Chief Executive may also have been wrongly advised. For the bills which have been drafted at the request of the Post Office Department would, as they now are worded, prevent the re-establishment of air mail service in America...
...will answer no questions that will endanger my comrades in Austria," said he, "The hangman is busy enough as it is. . . . But if you must have a story of a romantic retreat, tell that of the 47 Republican defense corps men who fought their way all the way from Vienna to the Czechoslovak frontier and marched triumphantly across the border carrying their machine guns and rifles which they surrendered at the first village they entered...
...Priest for twelve years. Tall Paul Mallon, 22, jeweler's clerk, plays Christus. He is the only actor who speaks no lines. Costumed by women of the parish, paid nothing for their work, the cast of Veronica's Veil rehearses three months every year, goes into a retreat to prepare spiritually for the 25 performances. As "America's Passion Play" opened its 630th presentation last week it was estimated 1,000,000 people from all parts of the world will have seen it before its current run closes...