Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle for the castle at Chapultepec in 1847, fewer than 200 of Winfield Scott's 7,200 troops were marines. The actual heroes of Chapultepec, moreover, were the Mexican boy cadets, Los Niños Heroes, who, with a small number of regular troops, forced the gringos to retreat three times in 24 hours, and finally died fighting...
...last spring, however, the issue seemed finally land to rest with the completion of Leverett Towers and a partial retreat of the demand for further expansion. The lull came about partly because most people realized that the few numbers the College might take would be nationally insignificant, but primarily it was an economic matter: the sum of $82.5 million no longer looked so big, the numbers of commuters declined sharply, and other areas seemed more profitable for expansion. Consequently, although Pusey said that an increase of ten per cent by 1970 didn't seem unreasonable, Dean Bundy declared in March...
...York and James rivers. After the first Battle of Bull Run, in July 1861, British Artist Frank Vizetelly, sent over to cover the war by the Illustrated London News, incurred the wrath of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton by writing too candidly of the Union defeat: "Retreat is a weak term to use when speaking of this disgraceful rout, for which there was no excuse. The terror-stricken soldiers threw away their arms and accoutrements, herding along like a panic-stricken flock of sheep...
Banished from the Army of the Potomac after this statement appeared in print with his picture of the retreat, Vizetelly switched not only his skill but his allegiance to the other side. Joining General Robert E. Lee's forces at the Rapidan in 1862, he thereafter produced the principal visual record of the Confederate campaigns, together with some strongly worded expressions on behalf of the Southern cause: "Surrounded as I am by the Southern people, I emphatically assert that the South can never be subjugated...
Africa. "The Congo has been brutally torn by civil strife, political unrest and public disorder." The worsening position of the West was soon spelled out in a State Department statement suggesting a drastic policy retreat (see FOREIGN NEWS...