Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill. But reciprocal trade is still a long way from being out of the woods. The first House floor battle will come on the issue of a closed rule -a rule that would bar amendments from the floor. To get that rule, Wilbur Mills is willing to retreat from the five-year reciprocal-trade extension to a three-year extension...
...Retreat to the Queen. Mills, in his first important test since he became Ways & Means boss last January, reckoned without another House chairman with rank as imperial and voice as loud. When the Democratic version reached the Rules Committee for processing, Virginia's cautious, wily Howard Smith took one look and decided he didn't like it. Too many votes were stacked against him for Rules Chairman Smith to pigeonhole the measure alongside other pieces of legislation that have displeased him in the past. But the bill, when the Rules Committee voted it out for consideration last week...
...function of any separate forces of any kind ... It must be directed under unified control. The amount of supervisory control that is given to the Secretary of Defense ... is that amount which will make it possible for him to carry out a unified strategy effectively . . . and any retreat from that is, to my mind, retreat to a certain degree of defenselessness that is inexcusable...
...most influential college teachers. An ironist of edged eloquence, Ran som has published only a few dozen sharply tooled poems, but they are among the best written in the U.S. this century. A critic of high reputation, he has never allowed his views to fossilize; he can retreat with grace from an untenable position, or with great courtesy flay the hide off a literary wrongdoer...
...China wind. The time is 1944, and the stench of burning Chinese towns masks the peaceful summer scent of oranges, persimmons and rice fields. With the Japanese armies at their heels, U.S. demolition teams mine the strategic airstrips with 1,000-lb. bombs gouging the good earth as they retreat. The irony is that they outrun the enemy but are runners-up to history...