Word: retraction
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...Nixon and Kissinger is clearly on the line. Kissinger gave no hint of that as he laid all of the blame for delay on Hanoi. He charged that Hanoi had suddenly begun raising "one frivolous issue after another." Tho and his associates would agree on a point, then retract it or try to make substantive alterations "in the guise of linguistic changes...
Most important, many Canadians worry that their country cannot control its own economy. Walter Stewart, a well-known author, sums up the widely held nationalist viewpoint: "The decisions to expand or retract, to open new plants or close old ones, to conduct research here or buy it elsewhere, are made in the U.S." In response to such criticism, some U.S. companies have recruited more Canadian directors for their subsidiaries and have given Canadian managers top jobs. But U.S.-based chiefs of many companies still seem to see Canada only as an extension of the U.S. Douglas Aircraft last year refused...
...Propitious Clouds, Great Special Cordon grade, bestowed as part of Taiwan's diplomatic offensive to garner anti-Peking votes in the United Nations. As one sign of his restricted power, Jean-Claude reportedly told some youths that Afro haircuts were all right with him-then had to retract the statement in a newspaper announcement and call for everyone to adopt the prescribed crew...
...couple requested permission to be married, by a rabbi, in the University's interdenominational Church. The request was denied, and Pusey explained the denial by proposing the thesis that Harvard was not, strictly speaking, interdenominational, but interdenominational-Christian. Under immense pressure from every quarter, the Corporation was compelled to retract the stand, and open the Church to all comers...
...Unless you retract a statement in your article "Europe's American Tastes" [March 15], I shall be forced to challenge you to a duel at ten paces. My choice of weapons, asparagus spears. It is unthinkable that anyone, even wearing Coke-bottle lenses, could have the audacity to refer to the magnificent Israeli strawberry as scrawny. A bowl of six has to be eaten with knife and fork, for only Martha Raye could possibly eat a whole...