Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acres of Star Island, one of the nine Isles of Shoals off New Hampshire's brief coast. But to the religiously liberal Unitarian Fellowship, these and the other two stanzas of the song Gosport Harbor, explain the intangible atmosphere of peace that makes Star Island a favorite summer retreat. For half a century Unitarians have gone from some 24 states "to worship God here in the midst of His sea to take counsel together of the deep thing that abide, to share the friendship and the hope of a common faith...
Tough of mind, weak of body, he rested when he could, which was not often. His retreat was a modest cottage on Long Island, where he lolled around in a linen cap and pastel-colored beach robe. There, last week, in the small cottage, Sidney Hillman suffered a heart attack and died...
Flag details and a bugler stood at attention. Before the South Seymour Island Service Club, the U.S. garrison faced the Ecuadorean sailors. Galápagos goats idled nearby. Then the bugler blew retreat and the U.S. flag came down on Ecuadorean soil. But the U.S. abandonment of its Galápagos outpost was more protocol than reality. Ecuador is broke. Until the Government can face either the political risks of an outright lease to the U.S. or afford to keep the bases in repair, some 100 U.S. "technicians" would stay around to help...
...great a lover of the U.S. and a continual proponent of freedom, proposed Philippine "neutrality" -which, in effect, would have turned the islands over to Japan. But Franklin Roosevelt assured him that the U.S. would fight to the last American for the Philippines; and Douglas MacArthur, getting ready to retreat to Australia, promised to return. Quezon, and the Philippines, stuck...
...Retreat. Whatever his formulas, Jimmy Byrnes was sticking to one objective: peace treaties must be made with the former Axis satellites this summer. But first the Trieste issue had to be settled. The Italian port on the Adriatic was a symbol of the struggle between Western democracy and Soviet imperialism. If Tito succeeded in taking Trieste from the Western-backed Italian republic, Russia's prestige would rise mightily...