Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more if their NATO allies will agree. More drastically, the Second Tactical Air Force in Germany will be cut in half. Both cuts will be somewhat offset, but not overcome, by supplying the remaining forces with atomic weapons. Aware that all this might appear to Europeans as an insular retreat, Sandys acknowledged that "the frontiers of the free world . . . must be firmly defended on the ground...
...time. His department wants $228 million for various and sundry expenses, including, we suppose, plane fare and tranquilizer pills. Some of the concrete requests include $260,000 for "recreation facilities." These include a tennis court in Iraq, a clubhouse in Yugoslavia, a swimming pool in Port Said, a mountain retreat in Indonesia, a beach house on the Gold Coast, and a cabin boat for Martinique. Moreover, the State Department requests $135,000 for American participation in the non-existent Suez Canal Users Association...
Shahn analyzed the modern spirit of conformity as a "retreat from controversiality," and satired its pervasive influence: "We are the organization man, we cannot create something better than that which was before ... I don't give a damn about my peer group and don't believe in satistical man or Riesman...
Although Bullitt stressed the importance of House tutors and associates, he said he did not feel the new House would suffer any disadvantage because of the budget-directed retreat from traditional Georgian architecture...
Last week, just two days before he was scheduled to leave for the U.S., Erhard's dream castle came tumbling down. First came a peremptory message from Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's vacation retreat at Lake Como: cancel the trip. Next day, back in his Bonn office again, Adenauer called Erhard in for a face-to-face wigging. "I do not want anyone going over to the U.S., saying that the Common Market is disadvantageous," said Konrad Adenauer, and particularly in the week when ministers of the six nations would gather in Italy to sign the documents...