Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost no interest in symphonic music. ¶ Despite an increasing sensitivity to public criticism of his golfing, played his first round of golf in five weeks-on the order of his doctor, who felt that Ike was not getting enough exercise. ¶ Spent the weekend at his Catoctin Mountain retreat, Camp David. after a leisurely drive through the autumn-decked countryside of Virginia and Maryland...
...demerit. Besides, he really should have gotten a haircut with an inspection slated for that day; long hair would earn another demerit. Of course he could pull his cap down to his cars, but that would be lacking in honor. No, the best thing would be a tactical retreat. So with shoulders braced, trying to look as much as possible like an officer on leave, Vag turned into the theatre...
...this point, Dulles could not retreat, even if he wanted to. As a whole, the U.S. people make their basic political judgments on moral grounds. All U.S. leaders recognize this fact and describe the struggle with Communism in moral terms. There are two ways in which Dulles, on this point, differs from Truman and Acheson: 1) he is clearer about it, and 2) his practical policies reflect the greater clarity...
...Utaishan to occupy Buraimi, supposedly in answer to an appeal for protection by the villagers. Britain countered by stationing three young officers and a batch of Trucial Oman levies in a string of Beau Geste mud forts sprinkled around the oasis, to harass and starve the Emir into retreat (TIME, April 27). Occasionally the British rifles would scare off a caravan, occasionally one would get through to bring food to the Saudi Arabians...
...whose results he now deplored. He masterminded the agrogorod scheme, designed to further collectivize the already collectivized farmers and to drive them off the land and into agricultural cities (agrogoroda). But by their quiet resistance, Russia's millions of muzhiks made the scheme a failure, drove Khrushchev into retreat. Result: the new policy grudgingly gives the peasants the right to own more livestock of their own, promises them big price increases for their requisitioned products: over 550% more for cattle and poultry, 200% more for butter, 25% to 40% more for vegetables. "Increase the material interest of the peasant...