Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slept in tents, made their own beds. They read the Bible, learned chants and rituals, and rehearsed the religious play which climaxes each retreat. This one, titled The Spaniard, was about the life of Maimonides, 12th century Jewish philosopher, and was written by Film-scripter Michael Blankfort...
...posed cheerfully for photographers, and waddled unaided to his car. pausing on the way to admire a lime tree in the yard. Beside him on the car seat, in token of the busy days ahead, lay a box of black cigars. He headed for Chequers, Britain's country retreat for its prime ministers, which he does not like as well as Chartwell, though it is closer to the pulse of things. There he let it be known that he was not pleased with the recent foreign ministers' conference in Washington, and still wants top-level talks with...
Nearing the end of a three-month globe-trot, Eleanor Roosevelt, 68, spent a weekend with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, 61, at his summer retreat on the Adriatic, later told how fine it was that Yugoslavia had "so young-feeling a man" as its leader. "His sort of whimsy and youth is a fortunate thing for the nation...
...there are more waiting." At the front, he was wounded by mortar fire and ran a gauntlet of fire back to temporary safety as the Communists overran the U.S. positions. On the morning of July 23, Deane went forward to join the single tank company that covered the U.S. retreat. He never reached...
They were the words of failure, and the man who spoke them a symbol of failure. Communism has been forced into ideological retreat inside its own empire. Eight years of striving to Bolshevize East Germany in the Soviet image failed in the uprising of June 17. In the westernmost, and in many ways the most strategic, outpost of the Kremlin orbit, people rose up, without arms or organization or leaders, against the whole strength of a totalitarian regime and the Soviet army of occupation. They were suppressed, and not one inch of ground was wrenched from beneath the Red flag...