Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still more incredibility is cast upon the retreat thesis by the angry reaction from many quarters to the American Association of University Professors recent statement of principles. The Association urged for academic due process and said that Communist Party membership or invocation of the Fifth Amendment was not sufficient ground for dismissal without an investigation and consideration of any mitigating circumstances and the individual's own record. The press indignantly demanded a blanket rule approach, however, ignoring these more human considerations by saying that the Party is a proven conspiracy and therefore all membership in it is conspiratorial...
...establish a branch of the family-owned Marshak Diesel Locomotive Co. near Paris. Before he could get started, World War II broke out, and Rojtman became a U.S. citizen, served with Army Intelligence for 30 months. After the Germans destroyed the Marshak works in their retreat, Rojtman decided to go into the tractor business on his own. "All a locomotive is is a tractor," says he, "and I have been in the locomotive business all my life...
...renegade from the Polo Grounds, the Braves seemed determined to repeat the performance. But the Dodgers would have none of it; as soon as the Braves gave them some runs, they gave them right back. Pitchers came and went. Even Brooklyn's big Don Newcombe beat a disorderly retreat. Almost reluctantly, the Braves went out in front in the eighth inning. Leftfielder Bobby Thomson promptly put an end to that rally by thoughtlessly trying to steal home. Apoplectic over this final foolishness, Manager Fred Haney fined Bobby $100. Apparently he did not think it worth while to beef that...
...weeks ago, thanks to Commin's efforts, Nenni invited Saragat to his French vacation retreat at Pralognan. The 3½ hours of conversation that followed were, Saragat later declared, "extremely cordial and weighty, and ended on a positive note." In an astounding shift of position, Nenni for the first time agreed to Saragat's two crucial conditions for reunification: 1) a break with the Communists, and 2) support of a pro-Western foreign policy for Italy...
...with, beyond them, still more columns suggested by the exploding flashes of sun light on bayonets. Director King Vidor has a master's hand with the steady, drumbeat assault of infantry battalions and the wild, wind-whipped charge of cavalry. He is even better in tracing the terrible retreat of Napoleon's Grande Armee from Moscow as it drowns in mud, freezes stiff in blizzards, and curls like a dying snake across a winter landscape as desolate as the ninth ring of Hell...