Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norman Angell, Nobel Peace Prizewinner of 1933, suggested that peace might now be preserved by avoiding a "policy of indefinite retreat before Russian power." "Otherwise," he wrote in The Steep Places (Harper; $3), "there will happen what happened before the second World War: we acquiesce in the advance of a hostile system because we insist that it is not so bad. Then when it is on top of us, we conclude that it is very bad indeed and decide to resist. But. . . aggression has attained a momentum too great to stop...
...members of the club are negatively impressed by their bullet riddled retreat below the swimming pool...
...hunt was on. The chill moan of the prison sirens yanked Roy Best out of his cosy retreat. Back in his office, he telephoned for help, rounded up city and state police, a National Guard company, and volunteers...
...resolution drawn up at yesterday's meeting, the left-of-center group said that "the current third party movement represents a retreat from really which may result in the election of a reactionary administration and brings closer the possibility...
...Commission's report brings into full view the vast educational needs of the country; it serves as an honest beginning for a job of constructive effort that must strengthen and expand colleges before a half-hearted retreat into days of academic scarcity begins. Yet neither the problems the Commission attacks nor the proposals it offers are now. The past few years have only made the situation more precarious. The importance of the report lies in whether it will spur state and federal governments to use it as a guide for building up higher education to a point at least adequate...