Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of this hysterical nonsence, however, I shall not retreat from my willingness to work for humanitarian causes and in the interest of preventing war and of maintaining civil rights and freedoms in America...
...along with some 100,000 other retired couples who live in trailer coaches ... we have taken care of that matter in a highly satisfactory manner . . . We park our mobile homes at Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Adirondacks or some other cool retreat in summer, and go to Florida, Palm Springs or the Rio Grande valley in the winter...
...stepfather. Bewhiskered, 102-year-old J. Frank Dalton went into court in Union, Mo., swore that he was Jesse James and petitioned to have his rightful name restored. The judge turned him down, in tones of disbelief, and then growled: "[But] if he is Jesse James I suggest he retreat to his rendezvous and ask his good God to forgive him." The Treasury Department announced a resurgence of moonshining...
Downstairs in the house, Doughty and his wife started toward the stairway, but had to retreat from the gasoline-fired flame already roaring through the hall. They turned quickly to follow their older daughter through a living-room window. Moments later, as Doughty tried to raise a ladder to the second story from the backyard, the walls of the house bulged outward and collapsed into a flaming crackling heap. The storm swirled the sparks and oily black smoke into the freezing night, and counted its death toll: Janet and Tommy Doughty killed in their beds, Pilot Jones, his crew...
...dangerous to provoke the Communists. "Communists are never 'provoked'; if they sometimes seem provoked, that is only a rehearsed bit of acting ... Experience uniformly proves that Communists are always emboldened to further aggression by friendship ... It is from firmness and power that they yield and retreat...