Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Retreat from Christianity." However the Graham crusade turns out, everyone seems to agree that Britain is standing in the need of prayer. Church membership is between 5 and 15% of the population, as opposed to 59% in the U.S. Easter Sunday attendance in Anglican Churches fell from 2,261,857 in 1930 to 1,859,008 in 1950. Clergymen are as hard to recruit as churchgoers; though the Church of England needs at least 600 new deacons each year, only 380 are expected in 1954. A recent survey by the magazine Picture Post found only ten in one group...
...face of what the Archbishop of York calls "this general retreat from Christianity," Tory M.P. John Henderson and the Rev. Colin Kerr, prebendary of St. Paul's, helped arrange a meeting in 1952 at which Graham discussed evangelism with 800 British religious leaders. The result was an invitation from Britain's century-old Evangelical Alliance to launch a full-dress campaign...
...United States cannot new abandon the European Army plan, however, Friedrich admitted. "A year ago we could have. Now it would appear as a retreat before the Soviets...
...This] stretch ... of country ... is one of the most fascinating and picturesque in the nation," the Justice wrote. "It is a refuge, a place of retreat, a long stretch of quiet and peace at the Capitol's back door-a wilderness area where man can be alone with his thoughts, a sanctuary where he can commune with God and with nature ... I wish the man who wrote your editorial would take time off and come with me. We would go with packs on our backs and walk the 185 miles to Cumberland. I feel [;that].... he would return...
When the enemy had overrun the city and surrounded it to a depth of three miles. General Dean gave the retreat order and led the last Americans in a motor column south from Taejon. Outside the city, he picked up seven walking wounded, loaded them into his jeep and climbed aboard the prime mover of a howitzer. At an enemy roadblock. Dean's aide and his interpreter were wounded. Finally the battered motorcade was stopped by a stalled truck which blocked the road. Dean ordered the vehicles abandoned, and led the men on foot across country into a bean...