Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee, he met a "medium-sized" man named George Rice who said he was a bodyguard-waiter for the Communistic plotters within Manhattan's Harmonie Club (for rich Jews).* "George Rice" told Dudley Gilbert eye-popping stories about the coming revolution. Dudley Gilbert hastened to build himself a retreat in the fastnesses of the Kentucky mountains, a place to hide himself and family from the dread Communists...
...when six feet away, low from the hips, hands at sides. Move three feet forward, watching King closely. If he extends his hand, bow again before grasping it. Wait for him to speak. Don't make a personal answer or ask questions. Before withdrawing, bow again, retreat backward (having surveyed your course for chairs, wheelbarrows or other obstacles) and bow again before leaving the room...
Franz von Papen ended the War as a liaison officer on the Near Eastern Front. In the retreat of the Turks and Germans from Palestine he again left behind some valuable papers which fell into British hands. They, too, showed payments to U. S. agents. London was cabled for instructions. Legend has it that London replied: "Forward papers. If von Papen is captured do not intern; send him to a lunatic asylum...
There has, however, been one positive reaction to the tutoring racket. Next year, according to assurances from University Hall, there will be a general retreat from certain of Harvard's outstanding liberal practices. There will be reduction of the cuts allowable to each student, more careful records of attendance, pushes on all fronts against the disciplinary freedom which undergraduates enjoy here. The reasons for this lie in the vague belief that tutoring is the result of too much freedom. And on the basis of this vague belief, students are to be rudely stripped of their privileges...
...were true the whole business could be easily dismissed with some smug generalization about students hurting only themselves. It is not only a force which cramps the exercise of her liberal educational doctrine, freedom of the student, unlimited cuts, non-recording of attendance, and which will force her to retreat. It is also a frontal attack on her worth as an educational institution, an annihilation of her standards until they are shadowy and farcical...