Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dropped in at the White House to pay his respects to Old Friend Dwight D. Eisenhower. On Al Gruenther's Distinguished Service Medal Ike pinned a third Oak Leaf Cluster, wished him well in his forthcoming presidency of the American Red Cross. That afternoon Gruenther mistily watched a "retreat parade" in his honor, then met some 600 friends who gave him a farewell handshake in observance of his 38-year military career that ends this week...
...soldier's courage has become a stranger and subtler virtue since the days when Spartan mothers clapped their sons off to the wars with the stark injunction: "Return with your shield or on it." In the jungle retreat of Bataan, it became necessary to resist in a seemingly lost cause. On the frostbitten ridges of Korea, it became necessary to carry a stalemate to its logical inconclusion. In these tragic endurance contests, new kinds of American courage were bred, and that courage is celebrated in these two remarkable, non-fiction accounts by first-time authors. Give Us This...
...proved to be 259 days). Thomas dropped the egg and stepped into the cage. "I wasn't thinking of anything but the baby," he explained later. But Christina, who had probably given birth only three minutes earlier, was too dazed to attack him. She scurried into a retreat cage, and Thomas closed the door after her. Then he rushed with the baby to the zoo kitchen and removed the sac. He noticed that the baby was having difficulty breathing and began slapping her on the back. She caught her breath and lost it again. "I knew the strongest stimulant...
...three important objectives achieved: 1) the Israeli-Egyptian war had been stopped. 2) an international police force had been put into position to prevent its resumption, 3) Russian designs had been exposed and dislocated. Nye Bevan called Lloyd's performance "sounding the bugle of advance to cover the retreat...
Mendes-France had an even more radical proposal: that a Cabinet of ex-Premiers be formed "under the patronage" of General Charles de Gaulle. Recovered from a cataract operation, the famed World War II. Free French leader has been coming to Paris once a week from his retreat at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises and seeing some politicians. De Gaulle always made his terms perfectly clear: a stronger executive and a "large and liberal" French Union in which the North African states would have independent status. Scorning the come-and-go of ordinary Premiers, he waits for the day when...