Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quiet Toughness. Late Wednesday David Ben-Gurion got a personal message from President Eisenhower. Its gist, as relayed by Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban, was that the U.S. had reached a stern decision: unless Ben-Gurion backed down and agreed to retreat from the Sinai peninsula as the United Nations asked, he could not expect any U.S. aid in the event of a Soviet attack. The White House had already made clear to Paris and London that the U.S. did not conceive its NATO commitment to include the Middle East or Cyprus if the Anglo-French persisted in their...
Britain's twelve-hour ultimatum demand ed that the Egyptians, but not the Israelis, retreat 100 miles from their own frontier...
Both graduate and undergraduate were quite willing to escape the chill that covered Palmer Stadium Saturday after-noon and retreat with wives, friends, dates, and bottles to the warmth of the clubs. This, after all, was what they had come for--to see old friends and sample private liquor...
...final terms, by Avco Manufacturing Corp. to Philco Corp. Avco also said it will close its money-losing Crosley appliance business (refrigerators, ranges, radio-TV), leaving 78 distributors around the nation with nothing to distribute. Chairman Victor Emanuel ticked off a host of reasons for Avco's retreat from appliances: "Increasingly severe competition, large over-capacities, rampant price-cutting, rising costs of labor and material...
...campus that greeted the band was green and silent, compared to leafy retreat of Cambridge. Even the Ivy was strugling against the cold and the silence was broken by the clatter of a beer can as it rolled down the flagstone walk-ways...