Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wilson last week took personal charge of last-minute efforts to avert a crippling country-wide railroad strike, persuaded the railwaymen's union to retreat from demands for a much higher wage increase and settle for the government's ceiling of 3.5%. With that, the Prime Minister not only reinforced Britain's gradual progress in strengthening the pound but demonstrated again that he is willing to take politically unpleasant measures when necessary...
Brazilians have always reveled in their genius for getting themselves into impossible predicaments, complicating the predicaments beyond belief, and then scrambling out of them at the last possible second not only unscathed but refreshed. They are the masters of the fearless retreat, the intransigent com promise, the edged hedge and the artful fix. No belief is so rigid that it cannot be reversed, no enemy so hated that he cannot be embraced. Revolutions are accomplished by collect telegram, prosperity by printing more money, and politics is riding a bandwagon. Absolutely nothing in Brazil is absolute. As a Brazilian Congressman once...
...Push from Monopsony. By then, Lockheed had decided to retreat, at least temporarily, from the commercial-plane market and stake its future on defense and space work. The move was well timed. The company was already deeply involved with the Navy's Polaris missile, which has accounted for more than $2 billion-a fifth-of the company's revenue over the past decade. Polaris' successor, the Poseidon, will probably bring Lockheed and its subcontractors another $2 billion...
...wrongdoers with an anonymous, homicidal host who intends to bring his guests to justice one by one. Properly done, this old-fashioned brand of carnage can hardly miss. The remakers of Indians fail in every impossible way. By shifting the scene from a godforsaken island to an alpine retreat, they are able to engineer a couple of spectacular deaths among the crags, but the mood of boxed-in menace is efficiently destroyed. Held to a laggard pace, such veteran actors as Stanley Holloway, Wilfred Hyde-White and Leo Genn convey the resigned air of specialists summoned too late...
...enclave" policy defended by yesterday's editorial could result in a negotiated settlement and also minimize American casualties, it would be an attractive idea. Unfortunately, it can do neither. The North Vietnamese would see it as an American retreat--another step toward eventual Communist victory. And with their new freedom of movement and undisputed control of almost the whole country, would become more intransigent than even. And, as the French experience showed, there is no such thing as a secure enclave in a guerilla...