Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only real excitement of the afternoon was Owen Hanley's upset victory over defending 145-pound champion Jack D'Arcy. Hanley's strategy of measured retreat, quick jabs, sharp counterpunching, and effective clinching was the smart man's answer to the D'Arcy attack...
Johnson opened round two with more sharp jabbing, but sometime in mid-round he made the mistake of abandoning the jab-and-retreat tactics for a frontal assault that cost him the round. The stronger Campbell took a few of Johnson's punches and then countered with a hail of powerful hooks and uppercuts that battered Johnson into the ropes...
...Shortages have boosted rice prices 100% in the past six months, and so much of the Indonesian economy is tied up in Sukarno's military harassment of Malaysia that almost no cash is available to buy rice on the world market. Sukarno's dilemma is that a retreat from the anti-Malaysia campaign would only focus his people's attention on their bleak plight and encourage Indonesia's Communist Party, which is presently excluded from his government, to become more politically active...
...helpless in the face of his enemies-the pitiful body of the alleged son of God, gasping, panting, sweating, bleeding, without a miracle to save him." And yet, torn by inner doubt as he is, when the Chinese Communists enter the war and the U.N. forces are forced to retreat to the south, Mr. Shin elects to remain with his congregation in Pyongyang. "We will give them their Christ and their Judas," Mr. Shin explains. For he has come to believe that what man needs is not the chill wind of reason, as the young narrator insists, but the healing...
...perhaps difficult to begrudge the Masters a lessening of their workload, but selection of the members of their Houses represents one of their most important and crucial tasks. As Masters, they should not retreat from...