Word: retreatants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rothermere, 54, it was a step up from being a big press lord to becoming a very big one. For Kemsley it was a retreat to the provinces, where he still owns 31 newspapers. By buying the Graphic for an undisclosed amount, Rothermere gets a free hand to do what he wants with the paper, may drop as many as 1,000 staffers from the Graphic's payroll. With the Graphic in hand, Lord Rothermere can wage a two-front war against 1) the Mirror, in the tabloid field, 2) the respected, full-size Daily Telegraph (circ...
Publication of the CRIMSON casein temporarily today, so the editor can retreat to their private shangri-la high in the Andes and tunnel their efforts into a gargantuan 30-page eightieth anniversary issue. Cambridge's only breakfast table daily will great post-vacationers on January 5 and the anniversary publication to due four days late...
...World War II, in the retreat to Dunkirk, he was operational commander of "Mac Force," the improvised formation covering the British right flank, and was mentioned in dispatches. Back in England he shot up to be the youngest lieutenant general in the British army. Believing he had risen too quickly, he asked for and got a combat command...
...substance of his report: Malayan guerrillas are on the retreat. To use their own "beastly jargon," the Communists' "situation has become malignant" since "the regrouping of the masses." In October there had been 36 contacts between police and terrorists, and 35 terrorists had been killed. The Reds were shifting their tactics to "insidious subversion...
...clerks and tore up the parliamentary minutes. Spying an elderly Demo-Christian deputy who was grabbing an antique clock to save it, Audisio clubbed him to the floor. Tough Demo-Christian Deputy Giuseppe Bettiol tore the leg off a chair, advanced on Audisio and beat him into retreat...