Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Forest mountain retreat last week. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer stared without pleasure at his beloved Rhine, stalked through the forest side by side with his priest son Paul in somber silence. For the first time since he began to vacation at Bühlerhöhe six years ago, its charms failed to soothe the 80-year-old Chancellor's troubled spirits. "He talks of many things," said an intimate. "First he talks of the Radford plan. Then he talks of the weather. Then he talks of the Radford plan. Then he talks about food...
...Anthony Eden's prompt hints that Britain, too, planned to "go nuclear"-clearly foreshadowed a reduction in the number of Anglo-American troops stationed in West Germany, possibly even-in the excitable conclusion-jumping of the German press (and the New York Times)-a neo-isolationist U.S. retreat to "Fortress America." Adenauer had argued that conscription was necessary to raise the twelve divisions West Germany had promised NATO. Then Dulles himself conceded in a press conference that, as part of a general shift away from conventional military forces. NATO might no longer need so many German divisions...
Died. Marian Griswold Nevins MacDowell, 98, tiny, frail widow of U.S. composer Edward (To a Wild Rose) MacDowell, who established a memorial artists' retreat at Peterborough, N.H. after his death (1908) with funds raised from concerts (she was an accomplished pianist), speeches and friends' donations; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. A gentle, indomitable woman who wore an old-fashioned pompadour and dressed in purple silk and white stockings, Marian MacDowell presided until 1946 over the rustic 600-acre MacDowell Colony, which sheltered 16 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Thornton Wilder, Willa Gather, Aaron Copland, Edwin Arlington Robinson...
...anticipated, the field was clear. The squads concealed themselves in their chosen positions, and when the marked man came by, bullets were sent in his direction. The execution squad withdrew while the covering force protected its retreat, and the getaway to safety began. I started the motor of my car and drove away...
...retreat in panic or in haste, as in "They bugged out of Seoul...