Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Retreat from Slime. Sanitation commissioners, fortified by readings from 44 river-testing stations and airborne inspection teams, also won active cooperation from industry. By last week 80% of the 1,442 plants in the Ohio Valley-among them atomic energy installations scattered from Shippingport, Pa. to Paducah, Ky., and an electric-power plant at Indiana's Clifty Creek, which use more water than all New York City-had established controls on the waste they discharge into the river...
...results of the Ohio cleanup are slow but measurable. Bellevue's Manhattan Beach can already see half a mile of clean sand ready for next summer's swimmers, expects the slime to retreat about 1,000 ft. a year. Boating is booming on the Ohio and its branches as never before-and even water skiers dare to chance...
Khrushchev also proclaimed that the Soviet Union would catch up to the U.S. in per-capita meat production by 1963. But this was less a boast than a retreat. This goal was originally supposed to have been achieved last year. The amount of meat the Soviets say they produced in 1959 was about half U.S. output. Furthermore, Kazakhstan's grain failure in 1959 cuts Soviet cattle breeding in 1960, and all but eliminates the chance that the Soviet Union can top last year's claimed gain in meat production...
...Luftwaffe fail to return the next night? What brought on this particularly savage sortie, the last and worst of the blitz? Collier can only make a guess. The night before, an insomnia-ridden Adolf Hitler had poked irritably at the log fire in his Bavarian mountain-lodge retreat; a captive audience of Nazi underlings yawned in their teacups. Then Hitler's secretary, Martin Bormann, and Pilot Hans Baur brought up the recent British raid on Berlin; was not some reprisal in order? Though every available aircraft was being readied for top-secret Operation Barbarossa (the attack on Russia), Hitler...
Loyal Rockefeller partisans refused to see the withdrawal as a retreat. They dreamed headily that somewhere along the line Dick Nixon might stub his toe, that the Administration's gambles on foreign policy might fall apart and that delegates would call for a Rockefeller draft at the Chicago convention. Beyond that they had another dream: that somehow Nixon might get defeated in 1960. Presumably that would finish Nixon and open up to Rockefeller the vista...