Word: backtracked
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...Nestlé's food in the manner of famed Old Masters. Weeks passed, but no further parodies appeared in L'lllustration. Last week U. S. admen, whose reputation for blatancy is supposedly worldwide, had the full story of how a French firm had been obliged to backtrack on a super-blatant advertising campaign...
...neither speech did Dr. Tugwell backtrack from his theories, but he couched them in more conservative terms, gave them a new aspect to refute the charge of radicalism...
...Secretary's invitation, had flown from New York with Mrs. Lindbergh. What the Secretary and the Colonel talked about for an hour and a half, they alone knew. Mr. Dern explained that he had sought "general advice" on aviation. Some newshawks interpreted the invitation as another backtrack to cover the Administration rebuke dealt to Colonel Lindbergh whom Second Assistant White House Secretary Early had branded as a publicity-seeker for protesting the President's cancellation of airmail contracts (TIME...
...disabled veterans on the rolls until Oct. 31; 3) gave those with post-War ailments a chance to convince examining boards that their disability was due to military service; 4) left Spanish War pensions entirely in the President's hands. The President had done a $100,000,000 backtrack under pressure from 435 politicians thinking only of their own skins in the next Congressional election, but he had maintained the principle that only veterans with War injuries should draw pensions. Before the House accepted (243-to-154) the White House compromise in place of the Senate amendment. North Carolina...
...Elizabethan village of his own creation, takes sunbaths in a breechcloth on an Elizabethan tower. He soon figures out who must have committed the murder, but he has a long way to go to get enough evidence for a legal conviction. Two more murders, an attempted suicide, a backtrack to a murder in South America keep the clues changing like chameleons. With the baffled sleuths, the reader is kept on pins & needles until Actor Lane, masking himself as dead Broker Longstreet, unmasks the murderer by a logical surprise...