Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conyers, one of Detroit's two Negro Congressmen, drove up Twelfth Street with Hubert Locke and Deputy School Superintendent Arthur Johnson. "Stay cool, we're with you!" Conyers shouted to the crowd. "Uncle Tom!" they shouted back. Someone heaved a bottle and the leaders beat a prompt retreat, not wanting to become "handkerchief heads" in the bandaged sense of the epithet. "You try to talk to these people," said Conyers unhappily, "and they'll knock you into the middle of next year...
...financial plight, her allies in the Far East were troubled by the new policy. The U.S., Australia and New Zealand are worried that they will have to assume the obligations that Britain is abandoning. President Johnson seems to believe that the British can be dissuaded from a headlong retreat. He said that he was "very hopeful that the British would maintain their interest in that part of the world." Secretary of State Rusk publicly regretted Britain's decision, but he warned pointedly that aggressors in Asia "should take no comfort" from the pullout...
...miles beyond Nsukka deeper into Biafra, and that the federal troops had simply moved through the city without bothering at first to garrison it. It was probably largely deserted anyway, since thousands of Nsukkans had fled the federal attack in trucks, taxis and mammy wagons, joined in the first retreat by large numbers of Biafra's inexperienced soldiers. The Biafran army consisted at secession of about 7,000 men, only 2,500 of them trained in the federal army-and those chiefly in supporting service roles rather than in combat. They are for the most part equipped only with...
Rarely Far-Out. Ever since 1938, when Geoffrey Crowther became editor, the Economist has attracted talented journalists and first-rate minds. It has rarely taken a far-out position that it has had to retreat from later. It has, in fact, vigorously espoused moderation and often corrected the overcensorious views of other publications. To the common taunt that the Israelis caught the Egyptian air force napping, the Economist replied that it was all but impossible to have guessed the timing of the attack. "Do not let us think that we would have done all that better than the Egyptians...
...week each year they retreat to a tranquil farm hard by the hill-country hamlet of Guildhall, Vt. (pop. 250), to eat strawberry shortcake on paper plates and set their sights for the coming year. Last week they were at it again, gathering in a 150-year-old barn for a round of seminars and lectures (sample topic: "The Government-Industry Paradox: Serenity, Seduction or Surrender") aimed at keeping their dynamic company on the move...