Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came out of the pandemonium of Philadelphia this week, the U.S. took heart and hope. So did the anxious world. For the big news from Philadelphia was that the Republican Party, which already controlled Congress and by all the signs would soon have the presidency as well, would not retreat from internationalism...
...anything," while inappropriate, was not tactless; for the observer was in ignorance of the tactical situation at the time, and erroneously supposed that he had arrived just in time to witness an attack. He was unaware, when he spoke to Longstreet, that he was viewing Pickett's retreat. To quote Fremantle: "When I got close up to General Longstreet, I saw one of his regiments advancing through the woods in good order; so, thinking I was just in time to see the attack, I remarked to the general that 'I wouldn't have missed this for anything...
...friendly little man with a fuzz of silvery hair and a serene face in which a profound wisdom of the spirit does not imply a complete innocence of the world. One day last week he was discussing the nature and purposes of Pendle Hill, the Quaker school and religious retreat near Philadelphia which he and his wife Anna Brinton have managed for the last twelve years. As he spoke, the folding doors opened, and through the somewhat austere room padded an East Indian woman in full native garb. Looking neither to right nor left, she went out another door. Howard...
Friends like Douglas Steere, Howard Brinton and Gilbert Kilpack. These groups, composed of Quakers' and non-Quakers, come together in spring and fall to withdraw from the world into the silence where they seek the frontier of the spirit. The retreat usually begins on Saturday and ends on Monday. During that time the group worships and communes together. Conversation is shunned, and the silence is broken chiefly to deliver the burden of a testimony to the group or to pray...
...stop building telescopes? Do we forbid the extension of knowledge? Do we retreat to some safe, underground existence where we can barricade ourselves against our fears and the unwelcome intrusion of new ideas...