Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fulbright's retreat was aimed at avoiding an even worse fate for the bill. Morse announced that he has more than a dozen amendments to offer, needs about three weeks of debate to explain them all. Senator Everett Dirksen took exception to this, enlivened the debate briefly by ridiculing Morse. "With a decent approach and with no Senator feeling that all the wisdom reposes in him alone, we can get out of here on schedule," said Dirksen. Otherwise, he predicted, Senators will sit around their Christmas tree Dec. 25 "in their red flannel pajamas," watching their grandchildren, and suddenly...
...interview yesterday afternoon, Hill attacked the Kennedy administration for deciding on "a policy of compromise and retreat in the matter of Negro rights...
...going-home time for the President last week. Six months after their seven-bedroom retreat was built on Rattlesnake Mountain near Middleburg, Va., the First Family was off to spend their first weekend there...
...Nuclear Issue. In Paris last week, French Defense Minister Pierre Messmer was coolly correct about Operation Big Lift. "Tres interessant," he sniffed, courteously refraining from saying I-told-you-so about the widely whispered suggestion that this meant, as Charles de Gaulle had often predicted, the U.S. would retreat from Europe and leave the Continental powers to their own devices. But the Gaullist paper La Nation spelled out a reasonable
...applying for passports the undergraduates have also opened for the State Department a dignified line of retreat from an awkward position. Other groups are planning to visit Cuba without asking government permission in the near future. Granting valid passports to the Harvard undergraduates would at least demonstrate that students with a legitimate interest in Cuba will be allowed...