Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General MacArthur, or the political strategists, followed this plan in the late autumn of 1950, the tragic retreat from the Yalu . . . and three long, cold winters on the battle line might have been avoided. Instead, our actions ignored the military capabilities of the Chinese Communists, and were based upon a forlorn hope and false estimate of the enemy's intentions...
...that the job is very seldom finished." Henceforth every student should be required to master at least one foreign language, not just to pass some sort of reading examination, but to be able to speak and read with ease. "It is time . . . to call a halt to this retreat toward monolingual isolationism . . . It is hardly necessary . . . to elaborate the statement of Goethe that 'A man who knows only his own language does not know even that...
...Foreign Legionnaires led the attack but were forced to retreat across the paddies under withering machine-gun and mortar fire. In their second attack, the legionnaires got in among them with bayonets and grenades. The fight went on behind the cactus hedges and straw huts, with fanatical young Communists in brown homespun clothing shouting "La dai" (Come and get us). The legionnaires got them. On the river, naval units sank six barges full of Viet Minh soldiers and equipment. Four-star General Raoul Sa-lan, who has been consistently chipper, even on the eve of past setbacks, boasted: "The future...
Christian apologists in the U.S. write a great many books, but generally they fall into two classes: treatises too learned for the hurried layman to wade through, and inspirational works which are clearly written but have little philosophical heft. In a new book, The Retreat from Christianity in the Modern World (Longmans; $2.75), an English visitor has set his American friends a good mark to shoot at. The Rev. Julian Victor Langmead Cas-serley, 43, is a cheerful scholar who this year took over the chair of dogmatic theology at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary (Episcopalian). His new book...
...current retreat from Christianity, as Anglican Casserley sees it, is not solely a modern phenomenon; other times have had their lapses too. What distinguishes the retreat now is its confusion, and one of the two "avenues" it takes. The first, the retreat into the "vacuum" of irreligion, has always been a passing phase. The second is far more dangerous. It occurred when disciples of the "scientific outlook" or "atheist humanism," who began their movements as a protest against Christianity, fell prey to substitute "religions" of their own devising. "[This] retreat from Christianity into religion . . . may fill that [spiritual] vacuum . . . giving...