Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when patriotism excused most anything. Taking its cue from a good movie, the next was dedicated to the principle that a heavily advertised epithet would be a sure attraction, particularly when surrounded by the glamor of topical heroism. So for weeks a bass voice, in thrilling tones, kept shouting "Retreat, Hell" over the radio to herald a really inferior war picture. After Retreat, Hell came the Miracle and The Moon Is Blue. Now Washington Street marquees bear a revolting resemblance to the walls of a grammar school locker room...
Twentieth century dictators are specialists in setting up awkward gambits for their opponents-confronting them with the choice of fighting over unattractive terrain for inconsequential gains, or making what proves to be a humiliating and costly retreat. Hitler was a master at it, but the Communists have dramatically advanced the technique. Last week they confronted Chiang Kaishek, the U.S., and the Western alliance with a hard choice over a tiny Pacific island named Quemoy...
...debate had run two days, EDC's friends felt their cause was lost, and sought to delay. They even offered a motion urging Mendès to return to Brussels for one more try at persuading other EDC partners to accept his sweeping amendments. It was a desperate retreat for men who had previously denounced Mendès' revisions. EDC opponents countered with the deadliest weapon in the rules of order, a question prealable-which calls for an immediate vote to decide whether the subject before the Assembly is worth discussing at all. To adopt it would...
After the Battle. Mendès retired to his country retreat at Marly, relaxing in slacks and sweater. On the littered political field of battle, musketry still rattled and firing squads went about their melancholy tasks. Reynaud, Pinay, Schuman, Bidault, Pleven and Laniel issued a defiant pledge that they would never give up the fight for EDC. The Socialist Party expelled Jules Moch and two other prominent anti-EDC rebels. The M.R.P. expelled three. Three pro-EDC Ministers resigned from the Cabinet, exactly counterbalancing the three anti-EDC Gaullists who had resigned three weeks ago in protest against Mend...
Whether this doubletalk meant that Taruc was a changed (though unrepentant) man or was simply proclaiming a new tactical retreat of the party was hard to determine from his speech. The one-time Huk leader never once referred to his surrender (TIME, May 24), instead preferred to say that he "came down" to Manila. It was plain that the Magsaysay government was happy to have him in its hands instead of on its hands : the campaign against the Huk hideouts is going well, but is also costly...