Word: retractions
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...protégé sleep with the wife one night during a fashion convention? Armed with the intimate details by his wife, the husband confronts the designer. Incalculably, the two men discover that they are emotionally drawn to each other. This alarms the dandy, who begs the wife to retract her "fantastic" story. She does, and the designer concedes that they only talked about going to bed together. At play's end, the husband is asking his wife, "That's the truth . . . isn't it?" She smiles a Mona Lisa smile. The truth, Pinter seems...
...direct inquiry into either his political past or his floundering attempts to develop a program for moving this state ahead. I think he has an unholy fear of the press. And this is something he will have to explain during the campaign." Retorted Nixon: "I call upon Brown to retract his ill-tempered outburst. If he does not do so, there can be only one conclusion. He is afraid to have his record exposed in a face-to-face confrontation with...
Powerful Rein. By discouraging wage and price increases, the President has also discouraged the ordinary companions of economic growth. He cannot retract his stand on holding down prices in basic industries without losing face, nor can he stand still for major wage increases without drawing cries of favoritism. But while holding business and labor back in the name of anti-inflation, the President has not exactly lived up to his own formula...
...stalling speed of a 707 flying straight and level and loaded to 250,000 lbs. is about 196 m.p.h. with the flaps retracted. In a turn with the wings banked at 17 degrees, the kind that jets often make when climbing away from Idlewild's runway 31-L, the stalling speed goes up to about 215 m.p.h. A 707 flying below that speed is apt to lower a wing and dive toward the ground. According to competent eyewitnesses, this is what American's 707 did. The stall, if it was a stall, might have been caused by retracting...
...other Nazi victim was Carmelite Father Titus Brandsma, a Dutch-born journalist famed for his prewar anti-German writings who was captured by Nazi troops after The Netherlands surrendered in 1940. Brandsma refused to retract his anti-Nazi views, died "protecting Christianity against National Socialism" in a Dachau gas chamber...