Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perfected his seamless style, finally scored in 1934 with Goodbye, Mr. Chips. The success of Chips led readers and reviewers back to Lost Horizon, written several months earlier, and soon "Shangri-La," the novel's Tibetan Utopia, became an international byword for any man's place of retreat from the world, including Franklin Roosevelt's wartime Maryland hideaway. (Ironically, it was also the name announced by Roosevelt as the place of origin of General Jimmy Doolittle's 1942 Tokyo raid.) Both Lost Horizon and Chips sold more than 3,000,000 copies, became movie classics...
...vigor of the debate began to tell on Adenauer. Late on the second day, when he returned to the fray, his 78 years weighed heavily. He based an attack on Ollenhauer on a statement that the latter had not made, and when the error was pointed out, would not retreat. Socialists hooted and yelled; in the confusion, the Chancellor lost the thread of his discourse. He bumbled, contradicted himself and flubbed questions that were thrown at him. When he sat down, Socialist Carlo Schmidt, who led the opposition assault, crowed to a colleague: "I think I won by a technical...
...what's now your living room." For a long period the available furniture came close to matching the piano, and the commuter found more fashionable surroundings in the "Day Rooms" provided at his expense in the houses. The pressure of the post war increase in students, however, forced a retreat of the commuter back to Dudley. Finally in 1951, Dean Bender admitted for the University, "We've neglected the commuter." Additional space came with the utilization of Apley Court two years later. A 57-year-old creation of the famous Gold Coast, Apley is now an unusual combination of collaborate...
...firm, aiming, firing, aiming, firing. His ammunition loader was killed, but still he held the position. Two Chinese got behind Gilliland. He left his foxhole, killed them both with a pistol. But he was shot in the back of his head himself. The order came for the company to retreat. Gilliland asked permission to stay so that he could cover, giving his company enough time to get away. Charley Gilliland was last seen firing his BAR, still holding off the enemy attack. His body has never been found...
...high school embarked on a retreat from solid learning? Absolutely, says Classicist John Francis Latimer of George Washington University. Latimer feels that he has evidence to prove his point. Among the results of a poll he took of 104 public-school systems in 44 states...