Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Retreat from Embarrassment. Faced finally with a choice between inglorious victory and unpalatable defeat, Ted Kennedy went all the way to the brink -and chose defeat. Though virtually none of his colleagues knew of his decision in advance, he notified President Johnson of his switch the night before the Senate showdown. He also tipped off Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, whose forces had become reasonably confident that they could scuttle Morrissey's nomination. After crossing the Senate floor to give Teddy an avuncular handclasp, old Ev rumbled: "It takes something for a young man to subdue his pride. It doesn...
...unwritten rules, a member's political imprudence is tolerable, even understandable -but only so long as it does not inconvenience his colleagues. Thus in the Senate's memory, Teddy's ill-advised efforts for an ill-equipped judicial nominee may be largely forgotten-while his retreat from the brink of embarrassment will be warmly remembered as an act of high courage. Outside the Senate, which is not likely to confine Teddy Kennedy's ambitions indefinitely, the Morrissey affair may be remembered as a negative entry in the record book of a clan that made great capital...
...Never Call Retreat, Catton...
...Cong can drop back to the small-unit actions and the sabotage of Phase 2 adding perhaps massive terrorism in Saigon to try to bring down the government. It is the kind of war they are best at, but "deconcentrating," as U.S. strategists call it, would be a political retreat that might well affect the morale of their troops and their hold on the peasants. Alternatively, they could go into Phase 3 anyway, perhaps even with a mass assault of divisional size on U S units in the hope of discrediting the U.S. presence by a major, one-shot victory...
Under the Planning Board's recommendation, the University would have to discuss with the Board any plans for construction on the closed-off part of Kirkland Street. This too represented a retreat from an earlier demand that Harvard submit its design to an architectural review board, which would have the ultimate power of veto...