Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...change does not mean a retreat from state control. In enlarging the collectives and assigning them their own machinery, Khrushchev is actually making them more like the big state farms, the "factories on the land," which he favors as cheaper producers of foodstuffs. Thus he brings nearer the day when all Russia's crops can be tilled and harvested by workers paid by the hour like any other factory hands...
...elevator passes the floor below or there are footsteps on the stairs, lights flash, bells ring and a guard springs alert in a room lined with pistols, riot guns and tear-gas bombs. Once divided into six apartments, the entire floor has been remodeled into a top-security weekend retreat. Its tenant: Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 28, the nonflying (by father's orders) chief of the Dominican air force...
...Russia's Sputniks, as evidences of technological and industrial prowess, nudged Western Europe toward neutralism. To combat neutralism the U.S. must show Europe economic and political leadership. With leadership urgently needed, it would be "national folly" for the U.S. to retreat toward protectionism...
...business, of sustaining our position as one of the world's major overseas investors. Over twelve years we have slithered from one crisis to another. It has meant a pound sterling which has sunk from 20 shillings to twelve. It is a picture of a nation in full retreat from its responsibilities. That is not the path to greatness. It is the road to ruin...
...both polar regions, and the IGY wants to know whether it is coming or going. In Greenland, scientists have bored 1,438 ft. into the ice. In Antarctica they are doing the same, and measuring the great icecap by seismic waves. Other scientists are observing the advance or retreat of smaller glaciers in Temperate Zone mountains. Their reports may tell what changes of climate lie in the earth's future...