Word: retraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...freely. Last week Marines in Sasebo forced Teacher Yoshiki Matsumoto to stand before 1,000 pupils of Waifu Primary School to retract his unfounded charge that a G.I. in a jeep deliberately ran over and killed ten Jap children...
...cannot apologize. It cannot retract any thing. ... It simply ripens to its inevitable explosion. This explosion we have to pre pare, like anarchists, with the utmost in genuity and malice." But young Isherwood soon discovers that he is going to be taught far more than the ways of the movie. Each day Director Bergmann flies off from the romantic plot of Prater Violet at a thousand tangents...
...also impugned the policies and orders of his Supreme Commander, Gen eral of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, who promptly ordered Patton to retract and sent his political adviser, Robert D. Murphy, to Bavaria to investigate Patton's administration...