Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a step may appear minor, but actually involves a significant retreat. Without interviews, a Master, if he intends to involve himself in the selection process, must assess all applicants to his House solely from an application form. Surely even a brief interview with a tutor provides the Master with slightly better information on which to base his choice. Interviews further serve in some small way to convey information about the House to the prospective applicants...
...broken, not only financially, but spiritually. His woman tries to console him that "for every number one man there is a number two man, and that, because of this, a man cannot retreat from life." But in a world where The Game is everything, he has no choice...
...there are 80 hotels that exclude Jewish-or Jewish-looking guests; 22 of them are in one city, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Nonetheless, B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League reported at its 51st annual meeting in Manhattan last week that there has been a dramatic retreat from discriminatory practices over the past six years. Some 60% of the U.S. hotels that overtly excluded Jews in 1957 have now dropped such barriers. In New York State the league found only one "restricted" hotel, in the Adirondacks. Even in Florida and Arizona their ranks have been almost halved...
...Onward, never retreat!" Sukarno said. "Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same...
...Viet Cong were virtually surrounded by the original paratroop unit, a second paratroop battalion, infantry and civil guardsmen, and were being pounded by air and artillery that killed or wounded an estimated 100 Reds. But the second paratroop battalion, ordered to move in and block a Viet Cong retreat, timidly stood off, leaving great gaps through which the bulk of the Reds escaped at dusk...