Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Retreat from a Cow. With two other prisoners, Benuzzi showed endless patience in trading cigarettes for food staples, lifting equipment from the British warehouse, getting clothes sent to him from home. Finally, in January 1943, everything was ready...
...story of their blundering journey is told by Author Benuzzi with both vividness and restraint. The nervousness of fugitives untrained to the African bush, the encounters with an elephant and a rhinoceros, the hasty retreat from a beast which turned out to be a cow, are all skillfully exploited for suspense. But the real challenge began only as the three men pressed higher on Mount Kenya itself...
...Took a trip to the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, which Franklin Roosevelt named Shangri-La and which Eisenhower renamed Camp David in honor of his five-year-old grandson and namesake...
...Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop blasted Wilson for his plan to appoint his great friend, CBS Funnyman Arthur Godfrey, as Defense Department representative to the President's Psychological Strategy Board. Wilson finally surrendered to White House pressure and named Kyes instead of Godfrey, but he muttered grimly, in retreat: "No columnist is going to run the Department of Defense." He was livid with anger eleven weeks ago, when Drew Pearson published the full text of a letter which Wilson had sent to the service secretaries under the classification "secret." Wilson's reaction was to order and enforce...
...grenade apiece, and some carried as little as 16 rounds of ammunition. All but twelve of the men were without steel helmets. When the Chinese struck, the surprise was complete. B company quickly ran out of ammunition, but the Chinese seemed to have plenty. One U.S. lieutenant covered the retreat of his men by throwing rocks and canned rations, and the company fought with bravery throughout. But 26 hours after the battle began, all but 34 of B company's 129 men were dead or wounded...