Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inner Life. Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle has traveled a long way since he was "born in Lille, 57 years ago, the son of a philosophy professor. He early acquired a love of reading and learning, and at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, where he has a country retreat 125 miles southeast of Paris, reading is still his main diversion. He reads and rereads the French classics, such writers as Montaigne, Chateaubriand, Victor Hugo...
When his brother, Pierre de Gaulle (whom the elections boosted to Paris' municipal council), telephoned word of the R.P.F. victory to the General's retreat at Colom-bey-les-Deux-Eglises, De Gaulle said merely: "Well, things are going faster than I thought...
...boys sold for fifty cents and an uneducated bulldog sold for six dollars. Twice we have entered the arena, filled with boyish selfconfidence. Twice, in the true spirit of free enterprise, we have backed our product in the open market. And twice we have had to retreat to the lofty protection of our ivied walls, thoroughly whipped, quaking neurotically...
...rejection of cooperation between communists and non-communists in the same organization is a retreat in the face of current anti-red hysteria, and serves only to weaken the 'Liberal Union's struggle against reaction and to strengthen the hand of our enemies," they said...
...organized labor, which is committed to the doctrine of always asking for more and of never making a retreat except under the pressure of a greater counterforce, could not and did not take such a view. Even the pinkest of labor leaders would admit, privately, that as long as the U.S. has prosperity-uneasy as it might be-the Taft-Hartley Law would work few hardships on labor. But for tactical reasons, and because it feared that the combination of the law and a depression might do them mortal harm, both the left and the right of organized labor stood...