Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lion who discovers that the bear's hug doesn't break his ribs." So said Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on the first jovial evening of his mission to Russia. This week, as he prepared to carry out the diplomatic equivalent of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, Macmillan has learned a little more about bears...
...Broadway play (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954) it is adapted from, is trying to make people laugh at a situation that is not really funny at all. Still, for an hour or so Actor Webb manages to keep the customers with him as he conducts his sly and skillful retreat to respectability; but after that, somehow the joke begins to get tired. Even vicariously, bigamy appears to be exhausting...
Presidents made a dignified but hasty retreat, Ike cracked to his host: "Next time we're down here, let's do this with only lady reporters...
...major retreat from his "purification" campaign, Prime Minister Fidel Castro restored legal gambling in all its old splendor of brocade draperies, deep carpets, clicking dice and turning wheels. Running the show from behind the scenes were the same U.S. mobsters who bossed gambling for Batista...
...asking the Congress legislatively to reverse several important Court decisions in the field of internal security, the ABA has heralded a retreat to the witch-hunting days of the late Senator McCarthy. The reaction to this McCarthy aberration, as expressed in the liberalizing rulings of the Court, did not represent a violent move to an opposite aberration, but a reasoned return to established values of civil and individual liberty...