Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algeria, Mendes was attacked by both Communists and rightists, who shouted him down, flung rotten vegetables at him. bombarded him with tear gas. His candidate got less than a third of the votes the Radicals polled a year ago. In the face of such repudiation, Mendes would probably retreat to his old role as a lone-wolf crier of doom. "They no longer understand me," he sighed...
Metropolitan newsmen who daydream of retiring to a country paper have long viewed weeklies more as a rural retreat than as an influential segment of the press. But with the swift growth of suburbs and small towns since World War II, weeklies have largely shed their cracker-barrel ways, developed sophistication and a new sense of mission. Today they are the fastest-growing publications in the U.S. Weekly Newspaper Representatives, Inc. reported last week that the 8,478 weeklies in the U.S. in 1956 reached a paid circulation peak of 18,529,199, up 6.5% over 1955. Estimated gain...
...Sickened by successive retreats from Indo-China, Morocco and Tunisia, and enraged by the withdrawal from Port Said, many among the professional officers of the 500,000 French troops in Algeria appeared determined that the French army must not be involved in yet another retreat from empire. Should Mollet show signs of giving in to Algerian demands for independence, much of the army might well support Algeria's reactionary French colons in open defiance of the government...
...advisory committee's warning until October. The decision was immediately criticized by Senator Clinton P. Anderson, who is joint Congressional atomic energy chief and a public-power enthusiast. Then the U.A.W., together with the International Union of Electrical Workers and the United Paperworkers of America, got AEC to retreat a bit, order P.R.D.C. to prove publicly that its fast breeder was safe...
...reduced status as a military power, the vulnerability of its economy and the limit of what it once considered the unlimited backing of its closest ally. The danger in all the resultant self-flagellant humility was that Britain might turn to a "Lay this burden down" philosophy, or a retreat into a popular but disastrous attitude of "Let Uncle Sam do it." Yet many in Britain saw that though Colonel Blimp lies punctured, Private Mouse is not necessarily a wiser counselor...