Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he has extended his work beyond the bounds of easel painting, Junyer's Manhattan studio looks more like a handyman's workshop than a painter's retreat. On a shelf rests his most prized possession, a scrapbook about the great Barcelona rugby team of 1924-25, amateur champions of Spain. He was scrum half...
...occasion, students visit Strode's country retreat for discussion, with hunting & fishing trips on the side. They also go to his home, just outside Tuscaloosa, for conferences with him and his wife, who assists him in appraising manuscripts...
...also an evidence of the continuing British policy of unduly emphasizing minorities." He characterized the Moslem League's behavior at Simla as "coercion of the majority," blamed Lord Wavell for the failure of the conference "only to the extent that he has allowed himself to be bullied into retreat by a small minority...
...sprawling, creeping Chinese front is inching forward in the wake of the Japanese retreat much as a boy tiptoes through a haunted house, testing each plank as he treads. Behind this front, held by old tatterdemalion outfits, new armies and new weapons are being tooled to the future strategic pattern of the war in Asia. They are not yet in action and will not be for some time to come. In these months of grace it is the old army that is retracing the course of its great retreat last year, advancing in the same way it fled-tired, hungry...
...there comes a gap between the new army and the old. You drop from the cool Kweichow plateau into the.heat of the Kwangsi plains. From there you bump by jeep over the great swath of devastation that American construction engineers left behind when they wrecked the country in the retreat of 1944. The bridges are out, and useless railways parallel the highway in twisted shreds of destruction...