Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next Feb. 2, Fordham University's president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon S.J., will exchange his budget juggling, administrative conferences, luncheon dates, and after-dinner speeches for a more peaceful program of prayer, study, sermonizing and spiritual direction of laymen. He will become Superior of the Jesuit Retreat House at Manresa, Staten Island...
...Verdel and Staff Psychiatrist William L. Harris worked out a full timetable of intensive treatment that left no time for the patients to retreat into their own sick fancies. The system worked. Out of the 106 patients, 16 were able to go home, and two of the 16 had full-time jobs; 4 more were about ready for trial leaves; 45 others were "good prospects" for release...
Torpedo Blast. The charges and countercharges were a torpedo blast to the Un-American Activities Committee, which had taken a new lease on life by proving that its espionage investigation was something more than a "red herring." California's G.O.P. Congressman Richard Nixon beat a quick, strategic retreat via a television broadcast. Said he: "Whittaker Chambers' statement clears Duggan of any implication in the espionage ring." Democratic committee members tore at Mundt like wolves snapping at a fallen fellow. Said Congressman F. Edward Hébert of New Orleans: ". . . a blunder . . . a breach of confidence." Mississippi...
...notorious punishment companies, a man who has lived through so many years of deaths and explosions land burying details that he scarcely knows whether he is alive himself. As the pressure of Russian attacks forces the German line closer and closer together and the regiments beat their aimless retreat across miles of snow-swept steppes into Stalingrad proper, Plievier introduces many miscellaneous characters who appear briefly, disappear are forgotten by the reader, and reappear again somewhere else...
Cold weather ended outdoor rowing last week, and forced the retreat to Newell. The tank, set in the middle of a large pool, is similar to a shell. Thus an athlete can keep on learning the fundamental techniques of rowing with the coaches at his elbow to point out just how it's done...