Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be perhaps too much to say that the British Socialists have ceased to believe in Socialism. But they have certainly abandoned it as an instrument or aim of government policy . . . [There is] a deeper dilemma which can only be escaped by a retreat along the whole Socialist front. It is simply that everybody-not just the well-to-do-is and feels overtaxed. The EGA has calculated that the taxes paid by ... 80% of the population . . . amount to 67 shillings per family per week, while their share of government welfare expenditures-food and housing subsidies, social insurance, free medical...
Flight from Fact. The problem [of Britain's dollar export drive] is so crucial . . . that the Treasury is leaving no stone unturned, not even that of encouraging private enterprise. Even if this be regarded as a change in planning technique, rather than a true retreat from planning, it means a greener light and a rosier prospect for the British businessman than he has had since before...
...from the Red-held coast, Hainan has only a narrow channel (15 miles) separating it from the continental shore. Behind a thin shield of gunboats and planes, Nationalist General Hsueh Yueh had tried to pull together Hainan's army of 160,000, mostly remnants of the south China retreat...
...Retreat. As usual, McCarthy refused to identify his sources, refused to turn over the full documents from which he read scattered excerpts. "Regardless of whether any Senator may disagree with me," he announced defiantly, "that is the procedure which I intend to follow." But, as usual, the names were not long in leaking out. The ex-Communist was reported to be Louis Budenz, onetime editor of the Daily Worker, who now teaches at Fordham University. The general supposedly was the Voice of America's Russian expert, Alexander Barmine, who resigned as Russian charge d'affaires at Athens...
Having filled the air with the kind of charge that made for sensational headlines, he then made the kind of retreat that was most likely to escape headline notice. He had already ducked away from his earlier accusations that there were 57 card-carrying Communists in the State Department, had named not a single one. He had ducked again when he was challenged to produce the 205 "security risks" he had accused the department of harboring. Finally, he had announced that he would stake his whole case on the charge that Owen Lattimore was a Russian spy. That...