Word: retractment
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Robert Amory, Jr. '36, professor of Law, said last night that he saw "no reason to retract my statements on the Law School Democratic Club's part in the recent local election...
Would you in your next issue, retract or correct this mistake, and once and for all clear up this matter in reference to my name. John Byrnes
...airborne. Seconds later, Plane Captain E. Q. Steffes radioed that he was in real triple trouble: two of his engines were roaring faster & faster out of control, would probably soon tear themselves from the wings. And he was fighting the drag of a landing gear that wouldn't retract. He banked the B-29 in a steep semicircle, skimmed close to the lights of Fairfield-Suisun's sprawling trailer camp, and crash-landed-left wing first-into an open field, a mile short of the runway...
...talk to make us lose our nerve. But the government in general and I in particular have stronger nerves than some quarters." Communist nerves had been edgy all day. When a Christian Democratic senator called a Communist senator "an unworthy child of Sardinia," the Sardinian demanded that his opponent retract the remark on pain of having his ears cut off. The opponent did not retract. After Scelba's speech, as if by signal, the Communist front benches rose and (in the words of the Communist paper L'Unità) the "senators of the Left flung themselves against...
When the News series appeared, some of the joints on which Reporter Petit had boldly put the finger closed with a bang. But Miami's cops were not so ready to turn in their badges. Last week, after the News had refused to retract its charges, 55 of the city's 63 detectives filed a $1,000,000 suit for libel. That was just what the News wanted. In court, it would have the chance to prove Reporter Petit's story-and get some action at last...