Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldiers guarded it with fixed bayonets. "If you try to use force," warned the lieutenant in charge, "I'll have to shoot." Then he turned to Lumumba's trusted aide, General Victor Lundula, and added: ''The first shot will be for you." General Lundula advised retreat...
...Sound of the Pipes. Outside the Elysee, De Gaulle's pronouncements left few people laughing, were greeted even by his allies with veiled dismay and hostility. While West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer hopefully announced from an Italian vacation retreat that there must have been "wrong interpretation of some of De Gaulle's ideas." Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns bluntly stated that his government regarded any scheme to dilute NATO as "intolerable." How, others asked, could De Gaulle talk of strictly national defense when nearly the entire French army was bogged down in Algeria? De Gaulle...
Sahl is the embodiment of the cynicism, moral decay, and retreat from responsibility which currently infect this great land...
...greatest issue in this campaign. I agree. But the issue is not merely the experience of the candidates. It is the experience which the entire nation has gone through in the last eight years. And what an experience it has been. Mr. Nixon is experienced in policies of weakness, retreat and defeat...
Visiting the U.S. in July, Mboya wanted to meet both candidates. Nixon was busy in Chicago at the G.O.P. convention; Mboya sought out Jack Kennedy at his Hyannisport retreat. Concerned about the wavering U.S. Negro vote...