Word: backtracked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having, in his tractarian zeal for driving home the idea of human responsibility, made the Birlings look like a pack of Victorian villains, Playwright Priestley suddenly begins to backtrack. Perhaps, he suggests, the young girl-whom each Birling had known by a different name-was really a great many different girls. Or perhaps the Birlings' visitor (Thomas Mitchell), who certainly didn't act like a police inspector, wasn't one. Perhaps there had never even been a suicide. Perhaps. . . . In his last 20 minutes, Playwright Priestley has a high old time perhapsing. Unfortunately, he has been prosing...
...nothing to do with portal pay. The none-too-clear Supreme Court ruling, handed down by labor's old friend, Justice Frank Murphy, had obviously opened the door to much current trouble for unions along with the hoped-for future benefits. Plainly, the time had come to backtrack fast...
...dead; dead as a doornail. All price ceilings were off-a state of affairs the U.S. people had not known for more than four and a half years. No matter if Congress did backtrack and restore a few, OPA was over and done with...
Time for a Breather? At Magdeburg, where it had bridged the Elbe, the "Hell on Wheels" Division was forced to backtrack for the first time in 30 months of fighting Germans. Three enemy divisions came charging out from Berlin and flailed at the bridgehead troops with massed artillery. The Yanks yielded the bridgehead with heavy casualties, some swimming back across the 450-ft. river. Fifteen miles to the southeast, however, at Barby, other Ninth Army units held a bridgehead five miles deep...
Committee members ate it up: this was good, red meat to outpost-hungry Congressmen. Frank Knox had to backtrack a little under questioning; such a scheme was not now under consideration, said he, and it was "what might be called wishful thinking...