Word: clears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though a carefully phased redeployment should certainly be tried, I doubt that American opinion will any longer sit still for it. The announcement of the first troop withdrawals made clear that from now on America will regard the war as, at most, a rearguard action...
...President also prodded Congress again about its slow legislative pace, claiming that he might not even be able to propose a federal budget on time if appropriations bills continued to lag. Two days later, the Senate made it clear that it would not act this year on his proposal for a lottery procedure for the draft. The bill passed the House, but Democratic leaders in the Senate want to reform the whole Selective Service Act and contend that this requires more time. The issue apparently will reemerge next year, but Nixon need not wait. He can institute certain reforms, short...
...Labs attempted to break through the picket lines individually around 7:45 a. m. but were jostled and shoved back by the demonstrators. One had to be pulled back by a friend and retreated across Albany St. to stand with other employees waiting for police to clear the pickets...
...Captain Joseph E. Cusack of the Cambridge Police Dept. read a declaration ordering everyone to clear the area or be subject to a heavy fine or arrest, and affirming his power to ask anyone for assistance in making arrests...
...this. This was a field of oil storage barrels. We forced the owners to clear out and now we're going to put a skating rink for the kids in here. There'll be a park here too, with bocci courts. This'll be a place where everybody can come and relax...