Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worst single disaster struck Stroudsburg, Pa., in the Pocono Mountains, where the usually gentle Brodhead Creek rose 30 terrifying feet in 15 minutes, left more than 50 dead. At Camp Davis, a religious retreat, 31 of 40-odd campers, nearly all of them women and children, were dead or missing. Mrs. Jennie Johnson, a survivor, described...
...proved to be Magsaysay all the way. Fortnight ago, seeing how things were going, sly Claro Recto began a retreat. He offered not to run for re-election to the Senate if Magsaysay would nominate only "tried and true" Nationalists who were party members at least six months before the 1953 nominating convention. This would disqualify all the eager amateurs in the Magsaysay-for-President movement. It would also disqualify Democrats, who had joined in supporting Magsaysay for President after first trying to run Carlos P. Romulo. Magsaysay scornfully refused to bargain with Recto, or to disinherit his most enthusiastic...
Then came World War II, and Carmi enlisted in a British transport unit. In North Africa, his outfit was attached to Montgomery's Eighth Army. One day at El Alamein, Carmi was collecting debris left by Rommel's retreat when he came across a bulky, grey object. It proved to be a piano, encased in a rock-hard coating of plaster, its innards too sand-clogged to sound...
Good Grace. When Adenauer's men made a nose count of the Bundestag, they found that Jaeger could count on the votes of no coalition Deputies, as well as the big Socialist opposition, and had a clear majority. Seeing that he was beaten, Der Alte decided to retreat with good grace. He joined up in support of the Jaeger bills, and at week's end got his emergency army bill through, albeit cut to the Bundestag's pattern...
...Arizona, guest ranches once advertised desert seclusion. Now surrounded by housing developments and shopping centers, they are eying distant locations, wondering how far to retreat to avoid still another move. As the settlers push out of Los Angeles, buying up one desert tract after another, realtors bulldoze farther and farther into the desert...