Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call for selective service and U.M.T. The decision had been taken after long consultation between White House, State Department and Defense heads. The decision was to commit the U.S. to full military support of Western Union-even if that should mean, in event of war, a military retreat from the Mediterranean. To make the guarantee effective, the U.S. needed, in one of Marshall's favorite phrases, "the military posture" to lend its words authority...
...waterfront to salute the U.S. cruiser Dayton (see cut). In the Red stronghold of Milan, ten truckloads of Communists demonstrated in the cathedral square; Milanese swarmed out against them with boos and catcalls. The Communists needed police protection to get safely away. It was probably the first Communist retreat Milan had seen in months...
...escape, Chryssoula volunteered for front-line duty. In the retreat after the Salonika action, she marched until exhausted and fell into a ditch. "The captain I was most afraid of," she said, "came up and pointed his pistol. Then the airplanes came over. Everyone scattered. I got away...
...Very Surprising." Monsignor Cippico's exposure, the only major Vatican scandal since 1915,* began last August. Pope Pius was at his summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo, deep in the Alban Hills. Beneath his long hand on the light walnut desk lay the morning's mail, with all the envelopes personally addressed to the Pope still unopened. Many begging letters Pius XII marked with a gold pencil, so that help should be sent immediately. Then he came to a letter from an industrialist who complained of the excessively high commissions charged by the Vatican for personal loans...
...Moon. It is a novel of some passion and excitement, and the slow accumulation of brief scenes, following the pattern of Passage to India, is very nearly incompatible with such passion. Here & there the novel has a kind of Oriental power of hallucination: experiences blend and retreat; characters dissolve; a spell is cast by the very remoteness of the happenings so precisely described. At such moments the novel seems a blend of several books, about an India that seems partly familiar and partly a new world of still formless action...