Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...correct or right." ¶ Observed the 43rd anniversary of his marriage to Mamie Geneva Doud with a seasoned philosophy: "I can just say it's been a very happy experience . . ." ¶ Interrupted a holiday weekend with his family and a few old friends at his Maryland mountain retreat, Camp David, to return to Washington by helicopter on Independence Day, lay the cornerstone of the Capitol's new east portico, using the same ceremonial trowel that George Washington used at the cornerstone dedication of the original building...
Outside Europe. 1959's changes mostly reflect what the optimists call "creative abdication" of empire and the pessimists call retreat. But to the surprise of many, including the participants, an independence movement that begins as a protest against the West, taking help where it can find it, often ends by discovering that its freedom has to be as jealously maintained against another outsider...
Thirty green-bereted paratroopers of the Foreign Legion led the first French attack. But the rebels, well dug in behind orange trees and with no place to retreat, put up such steady, accurate fire that the legionnaires fell back. The French commander ordered air support, and for two hours the citizens of Bone from their windows watched wheeling T-6 jets slam rockets into the orchard. Then the legionnaires went back in, this time behind a squadron of tanks, to clean...
...fact was that Mao Tse-tung's whole "year-of-the-big-leap" policy had been a fiasco, botched by bad planning, and straining fields, farmers and transport. Red China had already sheepishly begun to retreat from its propaganda claims when providentially the government found a way to shift much of the blame: nature this spring took a cruel hand in China, as it so often has before. While flooding rains fell over huge chunks of Central China, the provinces of Kirin and Hopei were parched by drought. In Szechwan, a force of 40 million Chinese was working desperately...
...Orleans Architect Arthur Q. Davis, 39, partner in the firm of Curtis & Davis, proved that a man does his best when he builds to please himself. Davis was both his own client and architect, set out to build a "carefree pavilion'' beside his house as "a retreat from the numerous activities connected with living in a house with a growing family." Davis ensured that he would be detached both physically and emotionally from the backyard by setting his retreat on steel posts so that it seems to float above the pond. The 2¼-inch-thick vaulted concrete...