Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...underscore U.S. bipartisanship in Berlin, a U.S. congressional delegation of one Republican, three Democrats, toured both halves of Berlin, after which Ohio's Democratic Congressman Wayne Hays summed up: "The one thing the Communists respect is force. We must take a strong position and not retreat...
Last week Defense Secretary McElroy led a Pentagon task force to the President's golf retreat at Augusta to report on the possibilities of wringing water out of the defense budget. After the meeting McElroy told newsmen that it will be "pretty rough'' to keep 1960 spending at the fiscal-1959 level. But when asked whether 1960's total would be $2 billion higher than 1959's, he recoiled: "Oh, no." How about $1 billion higher? "I just don't know," said McElroy. His final word before boarding his plane back to Washington: "economy...
...purpose of counsel and advice." Although Senator Harry Byrd, the creator of massive resistance and the commonwealth's political boss, publicly proclaimed that he would continue to fight on the old grounds, there was little doubt that the news on the editorial pages heralded a strategic retreat in Richmond toward token compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court's integration decrees. The import was not lost on the segregationists who sent News Leader Editor Kilpatrick, the most articulate spokesman for the diehard segregationists, a bitter, one-sentence telegram: "Et tn, Brute...
...morale, the hope is that the Crimson may have the advantage. Certainly John Yovicsin had done his best to make it that way. Last night out at the varsity's retreat in Concord, Yovicsin had done his best to make it that way. Last night out at the varsity's retreat in Concord, Yovicsin had some special before-bed entertainment for his charges. It was the film of last year's game...
...American public must not retreat from foreign policy debate, Dean Bundy asserted last night at the Dunster House Forum...