Word: retreatants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl students seemed to welcome and even abet them. Georgetown University, a Catholic men's college in Washington, B.C., was invaded, in fact, by an automobile caravan of squealing females. Scores of students poured out after them before faculty members stepped in and sent both forces into sheepish retreat...
...Retreat. After the articles appeared, Millionaire McCormack and his lawyer demanded a letter of retraction from Crowell-Collier President Stouch. Stouch gave him a letter, and McCormack distributed it. Recently it was printed for the first time in an obscure Manhattan vegetable and fruit trade paper, Produce News...
...Ullman, preaches humanity. The hero, Dr. Windom, is a dedicated medical missionary in a remote corner of Southeast Asia. Inevitably, he gets caught up in a struggle between the wicked reactionary government and the ruthless Communist guerrillas. Windom's problem is what to do when the government troops retreat. Shall he retreat with them, or stay on, in Red territory, and do what he can for the peasants? His wife deserts him, and friends misunderstand him, but Dr. Windom, caring more for people than for isms, decides to stick...
...patience in the ten-month effort to achieve an armistice in Korea, and will fall back no further. Said the departing U.N. commander, General Matthew Ridgway: "The issues are clear, the stakes are manifest. Our position is one from which we cannot and shall not retreat...
...posture was on Koje Island the U.N. position at Panmunjom continued strong and rocklike. With firm backing from Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the U.N. negotiators at Panmunjom stood resolutely by their package offer. Said Matt Ridgway, on the eve of his departure: "We cannot and shall not retreat...