Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such basic items as soap and matches were felt in every home, and most Ghanaians deeply resented his government's blatant corruption. At least five attempts have been made to assassinate him. Nkrumah's answer was to crack down even further, increase his security guard-and to retreat behind the four walls of his palace. He reportedly took to wearing a bullet-proof vest, nervously kept five bullet-proof Rolls-Royces ready to carry him around Accra, waiting until the last minute to choose the one he would ride...
...Here I am, Sukarno, President and Great Leader of the Revolution. I will not retreat one step or even one milli meter!" There he was indeed, full of bombast and braggadocio, munching cake and sipping orangeade - and apparently back on top of the heap. After five months of submission to his anti-Communist generals, Indonesia's Pres ident last week demonstrated the rea sons behind his reputation as Southeast Asia's most durable politician...
Britain long ago gave up the idea of any serious role in missilery and space, and last year the Labor government canceled three military aircraft programs. Last week the government beat a still more painful retreat. In the biggest postwar Royal Air Force order, Britain announced it would buy 400 military planes over the next four years-but 250 will be Lockheed, McDonnell and General Dynamics aircraft (see THE WORLD). The British will build parts for some of them...
...course, Brown heavyweight and Captain Ed McEntee was on crutches with a knee injury, but the fact that the Crimson had won eight straight decisions over hapless Bruin wrestlers hardly made Brown Coach Bob Litchard reluctant to cut his losses and retreat...
...Hitler's suicide in the Berlin bunker. Keitel was baffled. He had followed Hitler's every order in the naive belief that the Führer would accept responsibility for his actions. While more cynical generals like Gotthard Heinrici, commander of the Vistula Army Group, beat a retreat toward the American lines, Keitel went back to Berlin to sign the surrender document that he had never believed would be written. All around him the other evil men of Nazidom were taking the easy way out: Hitler was followed in suicide by Himmler, Goebbels and Goring...