Word: backtracked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exploring Columbian sites in the Azores, the expedition plans to backtrack Columbus to Portugal and Spain, and thence back across the Atlantic again to Central America, ending about February 1, 1940. Professor Morison's group is resailing the routes of Columbus in order to make a definite estimate of the explorer as a seaman...
Lenin during the Civil War, but Lenin and Trotsky together were too smart for him. In Author Souvarine's sober account of these years following the revolution, the predicament of Lenin stands out painfully: plunged by his own victory into a chaos which compelled him to backtrack step by step on the Socialist program, sick, knowing his closest henchmen to be politically imprudent, like Trotsky, or unscrupulous, like Stalin. After his death it took Stalin just two years to make himself impregnable...
...Nestlé's food in the manner of famed Old Masters. Weeks passed, but no further parodies appeared in L'lllustration. Last week U. S. admen, whose reputation for blatancy is supposedly worldwide, had the full story of how a French firm had been obliged to backtrack on a super-blatant advertising campaign...
...neither speech did Dr. Tugwell backtrack from his theories, but he couched them in more conservative terms, gave them a new aspect to refute the charge of radicalism...
...Secretary's invitation, had flown from New York with Mrs. Lindbergh. What the Secretary and the Colonel talked about for an hour and a half, they alone knew. Mr. Dern explained that he had sought "general advice" on aviation. Some newshawks interpreted the invitation as another backtrack to cover the Administration rebuke dealt to Colonel Lindbergh whom Second Assistant White House Secretary Early had branded as a publicity-seeker for protesting the President's cancellation of airmail contracts (TIME...