Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these reforms could not be achieved under Chiang. Having broken with the Communists in 1927, Chiang's alignment with the right-wing of the Kuomintang is portrayed by the authors as his retreat from dynamism into the morass of warlord-infested intrigue government. Mr. White and Miss Jacoby are not alone in diagnosing complete cynicism and corruption as the secondary invaders of the diseased Kuomintang body politic. This accusation is not fiction, but page after page of documented fact that will force thinking Americans to search about for an alternative to an ally-government that is bringing China to misery...
...unromantic as it sounded. To newlyweds willing to take a shot of cold "germs" with their honeymoon, the hospital offered a free ten-day holiday in a cozy, secluded retreat. Others who were taking advantage of the offer: tired businessmen, housewives, students. The hospital has a full house and a waiting list of more than 500, is booked solid for at least six months...
When twenty-five members of the Mountaineering Club withdraw this weekend to their Spur Cabin retreat on Mt. Washington and wait for the new term, it will be just another in a long series of such excursions which has marked HMC activities in recent months...
...hopes of lasting peace itself-emerged from the shadows of confusions and doubts. Grave difficulties, he said, had arisen at the very outset of efforts to make a peace, "but we refused to abandon the principles for which our country stands. And we served notice that we would not retreat to a policy of isolation...
...They took doorknobs off the doors and hinges off the windows." The Russians have learned, said Scott, that "if they are going to carry on this kind of a reparation policy they are going to be politically unpopular-and they are politically unpopular." Now, politically, "they have begun to retreat, to adopt a defensive attitude. They have got to this attitude . . . because of the pressure of internal economic forces in Russia and because of the pressure of a positive American and a positive British policy which have begun to make themselves felt in recent months...