Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position of the respondent, Governor Faubus and his military officers, must be firm, unequivocal, unalterable: that the governor of the State of Arkansas cannot and will not concede that the U.S. in this court or anywhere else can question his discretion and judgment . . ." Harper left one door open for retreat: "This is not to say that the respondents will not comply until they can be set aside, with orders, even though they may be made here." Then, with old-fashioned courtroom courtesy...
...large on the gleaming white Independence Arch that overlooks the Atlantic in Accra, is "Freedom and Justice." Last week, scarcely six months after Ghana, under Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah (Lincoln University, Pa. '39), became a free nation amid high hopes, both freedom and justice seemed to be in retreat...
...postman was walking up a nearby street delivering mail when a paratrooper thrust his rifle across the carrier's chest and told him to retreat. The paratrooper said he had "orders...
...desire of the Governor not only to observe the supreme law of the land but to use the influence of his office in orderly progress of the plans which are already the subject of the order of the court." Governor Faubus' statement had the sound of retreat: "The people of Little Rock are law-abiding, and I know that they expect to obey valid court orders. In this they shall have my support...
...friend among Arab politicians, felt compelled to announce that Lebanon opposed the use of force against Syria. That much courted Arab potentate, King Saud, passing luxuriously through Beirut en route to the waters of Baden-Baden, felt the same way, and though the State Department, in beating a later retreat, indignantly denied that King Saud had personally advised the Eisenhower Administration to take it easy, the denial was only narrowly true...