Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Collapse & Retreat. Next day, on the Senate floor, Bob Taft rose to give his verdict. Said he: "I could not find anything which seemed to . . . supply any prima facie evidence that Mr. Bohlen had in any way done anything which would make him a bad security risk. The associations he had were those which anyone might have had . . . I could see nothing which could create the most remote guilt-by-association accusation that could be thought of." John Sparkman quickly agreed...
Ortega y Gassest's "mass-man" is one such evil. Viereck's method for conquering that bogey is "not to retreat into un-American class lines in order to make some men aristocrats," but "to subordinate economics to cultural values, and to subordinate external coercion to internal self-discipline, in order to make all men aristocrats...
...Hamburg-born Reinhold Wilhelm Johannes Pabel was a tough little article. He had served two tours with Hitler's armies on the Russian front, had been wounded, and rushed back into combat as a sergeant of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps. He had survived the German retreat from Sicily by swimming a mile to shore after his boat was sunk in the Strait of Messina, and had been badly wounded again and finally captured by U.S. forces near the Volturno River in Italy...
...Rundstedt's command was a main spearhead in the conquests of Poland and France, and formed the stout southern arm of the Nazi thrust into Russia. But when the German attack in Russia slowed down, with winter coming, von Rundstedt counseled not only a halt but retreat. Hitler removed him. In 1942, with the U.S. in the war, Hitler made von Rundstedt Commander in Chief West, to prepare for the eventual Allied invasion of Europe. By 1944, says World War II Historian Chester Wilmot (The Struggle for Europe), von Rundstedt had lost the master's touch...
...honest broker for the great diplomatic triumph. Naguib last week paid him a well-earned tribute: "It was through Ambassador Caffery's good offices that many difficult points were ironed out." Some old-style British imperialists were horrified by the agreement, arguing that it was one more British retreat, like India, Burma and Abadan...