Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strategy. Such a formula would be a retreat from the wage-price line of defence against inflation. But Government economists looked upon it as a strategic retreat; they believed the line could be consolidated against any real inflationary breakthrough. They hoped the interim policy would bring order into reconversion at least until spring. And then...
Deep in Pennsylvania's blue Pocono hills is a 350-acre tract of farm and wood land called Kirkridge. In Kirkridge's ram shackle old farmhouse last week were gathered twelve Protestant ministers and laymen who described themselves as spiritually "hungry." Kirkridge is a "retreat" of an unusual kind in the Protestant church. Three years ago a small group of ministers (inspired by Scotland's famed Iona Community) met to plan a "dedicated order" in the Protestant ministry...
During the three days of their fourth retreat last week, they followed "a careful pattern of devotion," manual work, discussion and meditation. In the mornings they went to the mountaintop to chop trees and work on their new Kirkridge Lodge, of modern design. Afternoons were spent discussing social problems and sharing "faith-building" experiences. In the evenings, after supper on long wooden tables, they met by the hearth for devotions and evening prayer, after which no body spoke until work time next...
When the civil war broke out in 1936, energetic Señora de Palencia was her country's Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden and Finland - the first woman ever to represent Spain abroad. After the final, desperate retreat, she and her family went to Mexico, whose Government had extended an open-house invitation to all Spanish refugees...
...Memphis Board of Censors last week executed a strategic retreat. It lifted the ban on The Southerner, a movie depicting the lives of sharecroppers (TIME, Aug. 13). But this did not mean that 76-year-old Chief Censor Lloyd T. Binford had changed his mind. He still thought the movie "an infamous misrepresentation." His rationalization: folks were leaving town to see the movie, elsewhere, and that was "unfair to a tax-paying Memphis theater...