Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time for Better Men. The Liberals' Pearson pronounced himself "delighted" with the June date and got off the first blows in a last Commons blast. Pearson judged Canada's affairs to be "in a morass from which the government is unable to retreat with grace or emerge with credit," went on to strum the two themes that the Liberals intend to stress on the hustings: that the Tories have shown themselves unable to cope with "economic stagnation" at home, and are answerable for a decline in Canada's prestige abroad. Recalling that the Tories once thundered against...
...beginning. With my spatula (I do not possess any brushes) I throw on colors, distributing them and mixing them right on the surface. I am mixing many colors, fourteen, fifteen perhaps, evolving a labyrinth of hues and shapes. Finally, the entire surface is swimming in color. I retreat a few steps to look at my work. For the devil's sake! I can't see any ocean. The luminescent opening in the center has become an enormous perspective of pink and bluish lights. And here-a white and pink spot. I can't explain...
Harvard managed to squelch a brief threat by Tufts in the sixth. With two out and two men on, Jumbo first sacker Benin took too long a lead off first base and found himself in a pickle. Crimson first baseman Bernstein tagged him as he tried to retreat...
...already Paar had set a terminal date on his long-sought licking of wounds (many self-inflicted) at his Westchester, N.Y., retreat. Come next fall, he was committed to gratify again his fans' insatiable appetite for his headhunting, head-shrinking seances on a once-a-week show...
More important, Lockheed made the decision to retreat from the up-and-down commercial-plane market, concentrate on defense production. That seemed like heresy in a day when most defense contractors are struggling to build more of their sales in civilian markets...