Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's government and press were horrified at what appeared to be a retreat from the unequivocal declaration of 1948. "This," cried Rome's conservative Il Tempo, "sets off irreparably from the U.S. a block of 47 million inhabitants of one of the most civilized countries in the world [and] . . . opens the rosiest horizons for Malenkov and Togliatti." One Italian newspaper flung a well-remembered phrase back at the U.S. "Stab in the back!" it said...
...were holding a position near the Imjin River. That night, the Chinese attacked. Miyamura and his men gave ground reluctantly, used up nearly all their ammunition. With only four of his twelve men left, Miyamura collected the remaining ammunition, ordered the others to fall back while he covered their retreat. By the time they had reached safety, Sergeant Miyamura was surrounded by the Communists. As he was led past his squad's old defensive position, Miyamura counted 40 to 50 dead Chinese. For 28 months the sergeant was a prisoner, and his Congressional Medal was a well-kept Defense...
...federal encroachment. Last week the private utilities got a reprieve from the new Republican Administration: a policy statement placing a major responsibility for new waterpower development on local and private groups (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The statement did not mean an end to federal competition in power, or a retreat from such massive federal developments as Bonneville and TVA. What most utility men saw in it was mainly a hope for the future, a challenge to private power to prove that it could grow as fast as the nation...
...complications from a broken leg; in Twyford, England. Four times decorated in World War I, Mason MacFarlane headed British intelligence in France when World War II began. After the 1940 German breakthrough in Belgium, he mustered a hodgepodge "Mac Force" of rear-echelon troops and led a fighting retreat to Dunkirk. In 1944 as chief of the Allied Control Commission in liberated Italy, he smoothly directed the cleanup of Fascist officials. At war's end Laborite "Mason Mac" was elected to' Parliament...
...Back." There was plenty of joking and laughter, but also long hours of serious give & take with a rabbi. As with each retreat, the most moving moment was the evening ceremony of Havdalah (Separation), which ushers out the Sabbath, Music Director Helfman's voice rose in the sacred song of Elijah, who will herald the coming Messiah; in three concentric circles, their arms around each other's shoulders and waists, the men picked up the chant, swaying with the cadence. When the service ended and the lights came on one by one, many of these harddriving, hard-driven...