Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most consistent and positive policies of this department for the last four or five years has been an implacable loathing for a Hollywood cutie named Robert Taylor. We have advocated impeachment, abdication, excommunication, even complete abolition. But the time has come for the bugle to call retreat. That male Wampas Baby Star is becoming an actor What has inspired this transformation, Heaven only knows, but "Remember?" is a darn good show, and Robert Taylor has done more than his part to make it so. True, he has plenty of help. The script clicks with every quip, carries the audience...
...Retreat from its position on the Finnish question would be unthinkable. The Student Union has long stood for morality in international relations. That stand is perhaps an anachronism, but so long as it is maintained, it must be applied to every aggressor, not merely to certain of them. The H.S.U. has recognized this; the A.S.U. has yet to do so. On the other hand, secession is equally unwise; it would be at once the first step in the disintegration of the national organization, and a death-blow to the local chapter. As President Gottlieb declared, "there is no need...
Shells from the Finnish Fort Mantsi barred their retreat by road. And to the northeast, between the trapped divisions and their would-be rescuers, the woods were full of Finns. The relief forces, reported to be led by Russia's famed, swashbuckling Marshal Simeon Budenny, pounded the Finns' granite defense lines with artillery until the frozen earth was a morass of mud and slush, but every time they tried to break through they were caught in a murderous cross fire. As the Russian attacks grew weaker, the Finns took the offensive, capturing tanks and armored cars. Russian casualties...
Next month he was at Opatow protecting Russian mobilization. When the division of which his brigade was a part was attacked by strong Austro-German forces, his general, Delsal, sent him orders to retreat to the right. Major General Mannerheim retired to the left, guarded the only road of retreat, saved the division. He got the order of St. George for that, with a special commendation for disobedience...
...profit. Meanwhile, in 1892, another U. S. steel pioneer was at work on the Mesabi-Henry W. Oliver, who joined up with Andrew Carnegie's right-hand man, Henry C. Frick-over the opposition of "Pioneering don't pay" Carnegie, who predicted from a Sussex retreat that "this ore venture . . . will result in more trouble and less profit than 'almost any other branch of our business." In 1896 Frick and Oliver went to see Rockefeller, leased his vast mines for a royalty of 25? a ton (when other mines were drawing royalties of 65? a ton); guaranteed...