Word: retractible
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Even the British were forced to retract the statement that the refugees of the Pan York and Pan Crescent were predominantly communist. The British had something of a case here, it had seemed at first, because many of these refugees spoke Russian as well as Yiddish. When pressed for proof of the original assertion, however, the commander of the refugees' camp at Cyprus flatly denied that these refugees, who were screened at Cyprus, were communists...
Huffed plump Sir Alexander Maxwell, leader of Britain's tourist drive: "I trust Miss Young will have the good sense to retract. . . . There is not an atom of truth in any of her statements...
City officials and schoolteachers demanded that Scott back up his accusations with names and dates, or retract. Scott refused to do either. Sympathizers flocked to his church, murmuring "Hallelujah" as Preacher Scott laid into sin harder than ever...
Members of the department are now searching for some way to retract this admission, to raise the academic standard to its former level. And invariably the search must lead to a cry for more tutorial or a workable substitute for it, like group departmental instruction...
Mantz was an old hand, but he was the only one to have take-off trouble: for five costly minutes after he was airborne, the landing gear of his red-&-white P-51 failed to retract, until he went into a sharp loop...