Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regimes beyond endurance, and generated layers of explosive discontent beneath the placid surfaces, particularly in Poland and Hungary. The strain could not be kept up, either in Russia or the satellites. Out of that realization came Russia's new course, which began with Malenkov, and then (after a retreat) was continued by Khrushchev. Hoping to win popular allegiance, Khrushchev, as the head of a gang that rose to authority under Stalin, delivered his famous weeping recital of Stalinist terror. But the discussion of Communist evil was not so easily confined to Stalin alone, for how different...
...Risk. These were the prepared positions to which the Kremlin could move if and when necessary. Events in Hungary had suggested a slight retreat; out went Stalinist Rakosi and in came Gero, also a Stalinist but less notoriously so. In Poland, the Poznan defense lawyers were allowed unheard-of freedom. Khrushchev boasted recently in Moscow (to Italy's junketing No. 2 Red, Luigi Longo) that his rein-loosening program was popularizing and perpetuating Soviet Communism in the satellites. In theory, it may have been a sound risk...
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported Israeli claims that the whole Sinai Peninsula--150 miles wide at the Mediteranean end and 230 miles deep--had fallen to a successful Israeli pincer movement. The 20,000-man Egyptian force guarding the area was reported in full retreat toward the Suez Canal, where landings by British and French paratroops were expected momentarily...
...Retreat with Dignity. More personable, more genial and more subtle as he grew secure in office, Herman began to build a core of support that even old Gene had never achieved. Businessmen who financed Georgia's political campaigns liked Herman's lower corporation taxes and found his conservative views comforting. The rank-and-file voters liked his lavish spending for public works (with no taint of corruption). And after the Supreme Court decisions, even Atlanta moderates found Herman's segregation policies less offensive. So when Herman, in January 1955, turned over the governor's office...
Raider Louis Wolfson, who parlayed a Jacksonville junkyard into a $240 million empire and attempted to gain control of giant Montgomery Ward, sounded a general retreat last week. He is getting out of Montgomery Ward and selling all his 59,000 shares (at an expected profit of about $750,000). Furthermore, he is thinking of selling the Highway Trailer Co., the Marion Power Shovel Co. and its subsidiary, the Osgood Co., all controlled by Merritt-Chapman & Scott, which Wolfson runs as chairman, president and chief stockholder (more than 157,000 out of 5,374,360 shares...