Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heath's reaction than about that of Liberal Leader Jo Grimond, whose nine votes in the House provide the extra margin Labor needs to operate comfortably. Since the Liberals are dead set against steel nationalization, Wilson's omission was calculated-and successful. Welcoming Wilson's steel retreat, Grimond exulted: "It is recognized in the speech that the government no longer stands for socialism...
...Never Call Retreat, Catton...
...Brazilian military men who rose up 19 months ago against corruption and Communism last week rose up once again. In Brasilia's Planalto Palace, President Humberto Castello Branco marched to a microphone and made the announcement. "The revolution is alive," he said. "It will not retreat. It has promoted reforms and will continue to undertake them. However, agitators are menacing the revolutionary order precisely when the revolution is trying to give the people practice in the discipline of exercising democracy...
Despite aloofness, Odegaard seems sharply tuned to the student wave length. "Parents may still hope that the university will provide a pastoral, protective, quiet educational retreat for their offspring before the latter meet the cruel, cold world," he told the faculty recently, "but the present university-student generation does not look to me like a generation of lost and bewildered sheep; they seem hell-bent to take on not only the complexities of the university but also of the universe." The dissident students, he contends, "are not really running away from us. They are not proposing to expel the faculty...
...homosexualism can be shrugged off but snitching a handful of rice is a capital offense. The unfortunates of Changi face their greatest agony after V-J day, when a solitary British paratrooper strides up to the prison gate and liberates them. Is he real? The prisoners stare blankly, then retreat in panic, suddenly jolted into the awareness that the horror of what they have become looms between them and the world for which they have survived. King Rat preaches no moral, but it succeeds at unearthing the big tough questions that make a moviegoer think for himself...