Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President, Ike expanded his retreat to get more privacy, bought two more farms and two smaller plots that brought his property, now worth more than $250,000, to the battlefield's western edge. Using profits from his book, Crusade in Europe, he renovated the drafty, 100-year-old, nine-room house by adding two wings. It emerged as a 14-room air-conditioned mansion, surrounded by a whitewashed fence and sentry boxes at the gate for uniformed White House guards...
...into the mailroom. Ike's Sherman Adams and staff will work on the second floor, confining presidential business to the post office and respecting Ike's passion for privacy on the farm. Facilities for Cabinet and National Security Council meetings are at Ike's Catoctin Mountain retreat at Camp David, Md., 20 miles away...
...history will so oblige them; but other explanations are possible. Their decision to keep Germany divided is also an admission that they cannot control even their own section of Germany except by suppressing freedom in it, and to risk a free test there would be to risk a progressive retreat in all their satellites...
...with his basic premise, i.e., "Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything." His letters, edited by his longtime confidant and disciple, Philosopher Daniel Cory, cover 66 years, from the year of his Harvard graduation through the teaching days and European travels to the comfortable room in the hospital retreat in Rome, among whose ministering nuns Santayana died in 1952 at the age of 88. Skeptical, epigrammatic, gracefully literate, the letters are not so much the adventures among masterpieces of a soul as of a finicky cultural palate...
...program, hailed last spring as a bold, realistic attack on the world's economic problems, has evidently become the victim of unexpected, internal sniping. Usually, Congress is the perpetrator of cuts in aid to underdeveloped nations, but this week the administration seemed to outmaneuver its own program by retreat at the very center of the economic aid program...