Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rain forced the varsity baseball team to retreat to Briggs Cage for practice yesterday, but Coach Stuffy McInnis said he expects a good game when the Crimson meets M.I.T. on Soldiers Field this afternoon...
Beilenson's statement submitted for Council approval read in part: "We feel that statement isued by the AAU and subscribed to by Paul H. Buck as Harvard member of the Association represents a retreat from the defense of academic freedom. . . The statement. . . constitutes an invitation to Congressional committees to continue investigations of the universities...
...their respective vacations have interfered with the job of president. Roosevelt had an excellent system for assuring the public and Republicans that his vacations were well spent. He merely labeled Hydc Park the "Summer White House," Palm Springs the "Vacation White House," and said Shangri-La, his Maryland retreat, had the prefect atmosphere for writing important speeches...
...President greeted the rollers from the balcony. Then, with his daughter-in-law, David and Barbara Anne, he walked into the midst of the mob. As the people closed in, making retreat impossible, Ike picked up his granddaughter. David was bumped so hard he lost another half-dozen eggs. Ike's retreat was cut off. Finally a flying wedge of Secret Service men led the Eisenhowers out a side gate, back to the White House by way of a side street. Said Ike: "I didn't think the kids would take such a beating...
...middle: eight Senators for Hickenlooper, eight Representatives for Cole. Then House Speaker Joe Martin and Senate Majority Leader Bob Taft stepped in. Martin convinced Taft that the Represenatives were right in their contention that the chairmanship should alternate between Senate and House. Taft persuaded the Senate members to retreat from their stand that a Senator should always head the committee...