Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most practiced inspecting eye. He talked face to face, piling question on question, with the top U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force commanders in the Pacific, with Korea's doughty President Rhee, with European allies, U.S. diplomats, young front-line officers and G.I.s. Then he went into retreat with his staff on the U.S.S. Helena in mid-Pacific to translate a feeling for the situation into a course of action...
...scraped into World War I as a subaltern at the age of 18, made the retreat from the Somme. In 1919 he was part of a hush-hush force in the Caspian Sea area which helped defend the White Russian fleet from Bolshevik attack: "All pretty unsatisfactory from a political point of view, though great fun for a young officer." Now he likes to say that he is the "only senior British officer who ever fought the Russians." Between the world wars, he played polo and rode to hounds, became bayonet-fighting champion of the British army, made...
...extinct volcano. A posse of Kenya planters threw the Mau Mau lookouts off guard by staging a mock polo tournament, then suddenly dropped their polo sticks, whipped out rifles and charged the Mau Mau redoubt. From the ridges above came the sweating Fusiliers; behind, the Mau Mau found their retreat cut off by tall, pig-tailed Masai spearmen, recruited by the British from the fierce nomadic tribes that roam Kenya's vast Rift Valley. A hundred Mau Mau were captured...
Whether or not the Dunlap retreat into civil service heralds a large-scale movement, the incident serves to illustrate one of Dwight Eisenhower's serious problems. After the new Administration takes over, many key positions in the Government will still be held by Democratic appointees protected by civil service or by term appointments. Many of them are certain to feel that it is not time for a change-of any kind. They may buck organizational changes designed to save money, and they may buck Administration efforts to modify or reverse Democratic policy. The enormous inertia of the civil service...
...with Psychiatrist Marynia Farnham calling women "the lost sex," Philip Wylie calling "mom" a "jerk," and another critic jabbing at modern women who "regard their husbands not as mates, or men, or even mice, but as mats." But even if modern woman heeds her modern critics and beats a retreat for home, warns Author Jensen, she will never again make it her only beat...