Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crazy, mixed-up parable of the human race is a tale told largely in TV's own terms. Its soap-opera domestic situation, its firm reliance on interpolated newsreels, its constant comic interruptions and its narrow escapes from the maudlin and the mawkish by a hasty retreat into the reality of backstage confusion are all old television tricks. On TV itself last week, they served smoothly to give Wilder's persuasive talk a tart, tongue-in-cheek sense of proportion...
Never Call Retreat. In Helena, Mont. charged with shooting a bear out of season, Willis Kroll at first claimed self-defense, changed his plea and was fined $52.50 when Game Warden William Eckerson testified that the animal had been potted in the tail...
...Marine Division's 70-mile march south from Changjin reservoir to the sea in the winter of 1950 has gone down in military annals as one of the great classic retreats in the history of war. Bringing their dead and wounded with them in sub-zero weather, pursued by eight fiercely attacking divisions of Chinese Communists, the marines of the 1st beat their way to Hungnam and rescue in 13 days. But proper marines never refer to the march as a retreat; in the parlance of the corps, it is always "an amphibious operation in reverse," or, simply...
...German armies were in full retreat from their disastrous Russian campaign. On half an hour's notice, the prisoners were ordered to march west, through 40°-below-zero cold, across the same winter terrain where Napoleon's ragged foot soldiers once made their own decimating retreat from Moscow. Having lived on half rations for nearly a year, the shaky, shaggy marchers had more to fear than hunger or freezing. Their long, anonymous column made a tempting target for Allied air power, beginning the final sky mop-up in Europe...
...Russians and enjoyed relaxation, knows the anti-Communist lesson thoroughly and is not likely to revert to indifference. There is, for instance, no clamor to reduce the military strength of the U.S. until the Communists make self-executing agreements on disarmament. There is still general agreement that the Red retreat has been brought about by 1) the military power of the West; 2) the growing political order and stability of the free world; and 3) the amazing U.S. economic record of success as the nation moved away from statism...