Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department had abandoned "patience and firmness" for a more forthright policy of less patience and more firmness, the U.S. had appeared to be on the right road. Briefly, last summer, with the announcement of the Marshall Plan, the U.S. had held the initiative. Russia was in momentary retreat. Last week the Marshall Plan was still a going idea and would soon help bolster the rickety economy of Europe. U.S. Congressmen had largely abandoned old ideas of isolationism. To most observers basic U.S. policies seemed sound. Then what had gone wrong...
...Limit? Unquestionably, the ladies lacked the crinoline-&-poke-bonnet zeal of their forerunners. Perhaps they had become jaded with success. There were even some faint, uncertain signs of a retreat. One woman delegate knitted steadily through the three-day session. Another viewed with alarm the idea of community-cooked meals as a chore-saver. "Too many women find creative satisfaction in cooking," she cried. There were other signs of a return to old-fashioned ideas. The corset had already re-encircled the female waist; motherhood was at a 30-year peak of popularity...
...Truman produced his half-a-loaf message on aid for China, he also made up his mind about Palestine. After a final, bitter week of intra-Cabinet wrangling, he decided to leave things exactly as they were. To U.N. Delegate Warren Austin went the President's instructions: no retreat from partition...
...small white clouds can be seen floating in it. Yellow dust storms rage across the Martian plains. The Martian poles show white spots, suggesting icecaps, that creep in winter down to latitude 50 degrees (equivalent to the latitude of Winnipeg), and disappear in the Martian summer. When the "icecaps" retreat, they leave greenish areas that resemble vegetation...
...belt, marries a small-town girl (Jeanne Grain) and, just as he snags his first Manhattan date, collides with the '29 depression. He is proud; his wife is sensible. He tries to keep up a front; she knows that there is no front to keep up. When they retreat to her parents' home, he won't even get up mornings-much less lend a hand in supporting the family. After several reels of this sort of thing, everyone working on the picture evidently said the hell with it; for the show ends as abruptly as a chair...