Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months ago, in a decision that seemed to mark the end of a noble political era, Adenauer abruptly announced that he would give up the powerful chancellorship and retreat into the semi-retirement of West Germany's presidency. He hoped still to help influence his country's destiny, while allowing a younger man to assume the day-to-day administration of the country. Der Alte, first and only leader of the new West German democracy that rose on the ruins of Naziism, would thus ensure an orderly first transfer of power. Instead, abruptly last week, Adenauer canceled these...
...budget. Only by maintaining a strong, healthy domestic economy, he said, could the U.S. maintain its world leadership. With spending bills blooming in every congressional committee room, the President's budget seemed as doomed as a wounded impala before a pack of hungry leopards. Ike's no-retreat stand has helped ward off the fiscal marauders ; the economic boom has made pump-priming seem fatuous. Yet, most of all, under Charlie Halleck's House leadership, spending bill after spending bill has been either trimmed to size or killed by vetos the Democrats could not override. With...
...Retreat. On Duck Island, his sanctuary out of reach of Washington on Lake Ontario, Foster Dulles moved with Janet into a different kind of glory, as a sort of woodsman cosmopolite, expert cook and reluctant pan washer, heating hors d'oeuvres over a Japanese habachi, basting squab chicken on a spit before the open fire, sitting outside on the rocks sipping cognac, watching and identifying birds, staring out across the grey waters he had known...
...offer extra space, glamour and luxury touches (gables, palm trees, sliding glass doors), yet sell for about $1,500 less than those of most of his competitors. Last week Long added yet another attraction: with each purchase, he will give a free acre of mountain retreat land near the Kaibab National Forest, 178 miles north of Phoenix, provide a modern cabin...
...Army helicopter that had brought him to Augusta, and flew back to the sprawling South Carolina cattle ranch where he had gone with Mrs. Herter to catch a few days' secluded rest before taking over as Secretary of State. In bygone days at the 12,000-acre retreat (owned by Mrs. Herter's family, and called Cheeha-Combahee after two nearby rivers), Herter used to hunt duck, quail, deer, fox or raccoon from early to late. But years ago, osteoarthritis of the hip joints forced him to give up strenuous sports for such sedentary recreations as playing bridge...