Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month after endless month, the cause of freedom had been on the retreat in the Far East. There was truce without victory in Korea, then armistice with defeat in Indo-China. Flushed with success, the Chinese Communists began to reach out for more, boldly attacking Nationalist-held stepping-stone islands between the China mainland and For mosa. Meanwhile, the diplomatic offensive for the recognition of Red China drew more and more support from certain U.S. allies. Last week the U.S. completed a diplomatic counterthrust...
...Advance or Retreat." Hostilities began when Japan's No. 2 conservative, a 71-year-old cripple named Ichiro Hatoyama, led a sizable walkout from the Liberal Party. Hatoyama once led the party, had to turn it over to Yoshida when purged as "undesirable" by Douglas MacArthur, and never got the leadership back. Hostilities deepened when Mamoru Shigemitsu, 65, a crippled ex-war criminal who signed the surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, withdrew the support of his right-wing Progressive Party from Yoshida, leaving Yoshida with only 183 votes in the Lower House of the Diet. The two dissident forces...
...massed opposition, the Premier began a tactical withdrawal. "It would be highly unpleasant," wrote Yoshida to his remaining conservative associates, "should my actions give the impression . . . that I am hanging on to power. With the situation as it is, I ask you to deliberate . . . disregarding my personal advance or retreat for the time being." His associates deliberated and concluded: stay on for now as Premier, they said, but step down as Liberal Party leader. Said Yoshida: "I am in complete agreement...
...growing wave of price cutting by department stores and G.E.'s retreat from a one-price policy point up the astonishing growth of discount houses. They now have 85%-90% of major appliance sales in the U.S., according to the National Retail Dry Goods Association. Since 1939, said NRDGA, department-store sales of electrical appliances have fallen from...
...critical articles, both ambitions in intent, flounder on the problem of epistemology in modern literature. Any estimate of Roger Shattuck's Retreat and Return must be to some extent unfair, for it is only a brief extract from his forthcoming book. However his broad classifications seem to bury many ramifications and nuances in the authors he discusses. That the literature of his period is "self-reflexive" is sufficiently explicit in the sources themselves. But a definition of the myriad meanings of this term would seem to be the critic's task, as well as a search for underlying motivations...