Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bureau (Intelligence), and by war's beginning he was well known as a good intelligence officer. When the Nazis entered Paris in 1940, the Gestapo made a beeline for his apartment, but their bird had flown, joined up with the headquarters of the army in the retreat to the south...
...morning last week the Russian state radio canceled its regular programs, and for the next three hours droned out details of a great Moscow retreat. It was a 25,000-word document written by Russia's new No. 2 man, Nikita Khrushchev and it told the hitherto hidden story of Soviet Communism's failure to provide food for its subject peoples. Items...
...labor movement's retreat from the extremes of socialism was dramatized last week in a noisy, crowded meeting hall at Douglas, on the Isle of Man, where 1,000 delegates representing 8,000,000 British union workers gathered for the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress. The Bevanites came with thoraxes well oiled and briefcases crammed with speeches and resolutions concocted to harass, convert, and, if possible, uproot the T.U.C.'s Percheron-stolid leadership. Amplified by Communist and fellow-traveler support which they disdain but inevitably attract, Bevanite voices rang out with demands for censure against T.U.C...
French Premier Joseph Laniel's first try at national economizing was a cut in the government's huge pension payments. Result: a chain explosion of crippling strikes that threw him into retreat. Last week Laniel tried a couple of other, less risky approaches-a fiat lowering prices and a crackdown on France's multitude of tax evaders...
...acres south of Riverside, Calif., where she would like to start a colony. "If I had an endowment-which I ain't got-" she adds with the breeziness of an old trouper. "I would take six boys and six girls and keep them under monastic discipline in a retreat for five years before I would allow them to dance. My vision is of a renaissance in America, beginning with the dance...