Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times. The Soviet Union is rapidly building up its armaments and brazenly sending its Cuban allies into Africa to stir up trouble and challenge American interests. Many treaty supporters, including Senator Henry Jackson, are understandably concerned that a ceding of the canal may be interpreted as another American retreat. But the U.S. is hardly backing down from a Soviet threat; it is rising to the occasion of settling a dispute with an ally. If it is a sign of weakness to capitulate to an enemy, it may well be an indication of strength to make timely concessions to a friend...
Since then, angry constituents have deluged Congressmen and Senators with phone calls and mail, and now the legislators' courage is running out, particularly among those up for re-election this fall. Last week, in a sudden about-face, the House Speaker became the leader of the retreat. Observed a Democratic House aide: "I've never seen O'Neill run so fast. He simply panicked...
...problem of audience reaction always exists for the favored player, as even Evert found out. The sweetheart of tennis lost many of the cheers of the crowd after she had established herself at the top, and her just-ended vacation was a retreat from the pressures of spending almost four years as number...
...means the only luxury store to move into the Washington market. Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's, Lord & Taylor, all have opened one or more outlets in or near the capital; all have done well enough to tempt established stores such as Hecht's and Woodward & Lothrop to retreat from their old bargain-counter ways. Mercedes-Benz thinks well enough of the area to service it with five agencies...
...Somalis decide to pull their army back, intact, behind their border. Indeed there was some indication that they were withdrawing their heavy artillery. But according to Somalian officials, this merely signals a shift back to guerrilla tactics against the Ethiopian forces. If the Somalians do execute a full retreat, there is now no serious concern that the Ethiopians will try to occupy any Somali territory, although in their discussions with U.S. diplomats in Addis Ababa, Soviet officials have refused to rule out "hot pursuit" missions across the border...