Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This may have been a smart bit of early-stage campaigning by Kefauver, but there is no reason to think that it was effective. It is not likely that Ray Jenkins, having burst upon the national scene, will retreat to the courtrooms of East Tennessee, never to assault a network microphone again. Jenkins is a man with a natural flair for politics. In the lobbies and dining rooms of Washington he shakes hands, signs autographs, and pats children just as readily as does his old pal Estes. If he could arouse enough Tennesseans to believe that Kefauver has marched...
Police hoped for an end to the Trumbull Park riots, the most sustained in Chicago's history. Howard hoped that his retreat would make life easier for the other Negro families, but in the tense South Side, hate is not easily appeased. Recently, a teenage gang stoned two Trumbull Park Negro women, both pregnant, as they walked home from a grocery store. Chicago expected trouble in the sultry summer nights ahead...
...dream of the best prevent him from grasping the good," said one who considers himself a friend. "The core of Bidault is rigidly moral and deeply religious." On such a man last week fell the bitter task of laying before the Communists France's terms of retreat in Indo-China...
...color maps on the following four pages show the world's contemporary empires, at their peak and at their present ebb. Imperialism itself is in retreat: out of step with the 20th century, it is condemned to anachronism by the urgent drive of black man and yellow man to be free. But not all empires are doomed to sudden extinction. Britain's conspicuously has proven its ability to learn from defeat, to loosen the bonds forged by gunboat and ledger, and to command the loyalty of many of its subjects through freedom instead of force...
...great setback is easily pinpointed. It happened near Concord, Mass, one spring day in 1775. The American Revolution served notice that independence can be not only a faith but a fact. The faith spread like quicksilver-to Latin America, where Bolivar ousted the Spaniards, and the Portuguese beat a retreat; to Europe itself, where it mingled with British liberalism and the surge of the French Revolution (1789) to stir Poles, Czechs and Hungarians into clamor for nationhood. Imperialism in Europe faltered; it went down to defeat in the carnage of major...