Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Britain made new proposals which, in effect, rejected Standard's plan. But at the same time Britain made its first retreat from the harsh terms of its original plan. It offered to let U.S. companies sell above the 9,000,000-ton (67.5 million barrels) quota provided they spent the additional dollars so earned in the sterling area. U.S. oilmen thought that too small a concession. To them, it still looked as if the British were trying to force the U.S. to make the world's oil market into one vast, noncompetitive cartel...
...thinker nor a canny leader, but he was a magnificent pamphleteer. In Boston he began publishing the Liberator, a propaganda paper championing abolition. In a dingy room in Merchants' Hall he set up an old press and printed his famous manifesto: "I am in earnest ... I will not retreat a single inch-AND I WILL BE HEARD." He was as good as his word. Though the Liberator never paid expenses or ever had more than 3,000 subscribers, its articles shook, scandalized and aroused the nation...
Acheson's statement was the latest U.S. retreat from our policy of 1946, when we strung along with a UN resolution asking its members to pull their ambassadors out of "Franco Fascist Spain." Since then, U.S. military men have been advertising Spain as a fine and friendly beachhead on the continent, although they admit that if we are going to fight in Western Europe it will have to be on the Rhine, not the Pyrenees. A number of Southern senators have claimed that Franco is not such a bad man after all, especially since his country wants to buy their...
...past few months, Cripps has suffered from insomnia. He has been keenly aware of public censure of his decision to devalue the pound. Friends say he is considering a year of spiritual retreat...
...problem becomes especially sharp, Steere argues, when Protestants undertake to cultivate a devotional life-"whether it is the framing of a liturgy for corporate worship, or a set of retreat exercises, or instructions for private prayer." To the free church congregations, for whom sacramentalism or the priest's role is not central, old liturgical molds are as irrelevant as the "Gothic church, which was built to focus all upon the choir and ultimately upon the dramatic stage of the Mass table, where Christ is believed to be literally materialized and made present. But if we admit this irrelevancy...