Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joel Barlow, Minister Plenipotentiary to France, who perished of cold and privation at Zarnowiec, Poland in 1812, during Napoleon's retreat from Moscow...
...Viceroy would not agree to the establishment of an impartial tribunal to investigate alleged breaches of the Delhi pact (TIME, March 2), as Gandhi had first demanded, but he did say that he would have some of the more startling charges looked into. The Mahatma retired to his mountain retreat near Simla, took a ceremonial bath, repeated a litany 1,008 times with some disciples, began his wild dash for London...
...completely by surprise. He emitted a blood-curdling yell, sprang into the air and with all his strength hurled his water-filled pail and his wet mop full in the face of the astonished beast. Hannibal was so unnerved by this attack that he tried to beat a hasty retreat over the slippery floor. His feet flew out from under him and he turned an undignified somersault back into his sleeping den. Poor Hannibal couldn't be persuaded to come out of his sleeping quarters for more than a week...
...Dictator who knows when to retreat is square, swart Carlos Ibanez, the President who has held the reins of Chilean Government in his fist for four years. Times were bad in Chile last week. The Government was in grave financial difficulties, a committee of British and U. S. bankers was expected to reorganize once more the country's finances. Santiago teemed with discontent. In Buenos Aires the Argentine police had raided the rooms of one Pedro Leon Ugalde, who narrowly failed to bring off a Chilean revolution at Conception several months ago. As a matter of courtesy they announced...
...Soviet State, and your correspondent has repeatedly emphasized the fact that Stalinism aims at using capitalist weapons to achieve collective or Socialist results. It would be the gravest error if the midway period of the Five-Year Plan . . . should be identified in the foreign mind with anything like a retreat or recantation on the part of the Bolshevist leader...