Word: backtracked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first book, the madwoman of Beekman Place was getting on toward 60 and past her best years (although she would not have admitted it). Clearly Author Dennis (real name: Edward Everett Tanner III) had to backtrack and find a more youthful Mame. Deftly he discovered a hitherto overlooked interlude. It seems that between the time Mame's nephew Patrick was kicked out of St. Boniface Academy in Apathy, Mass. and the time he entered college and the brawny embrace of Bubbles, the waitress, there was a broadening period of travel...
...satellite watching improved last week-with two satellites to watch and more time to practice. The Smithsonian's observatory at Cambridge reported that it has pinpointed both Soviet satellites accurately enough to backtrack by computer and find the hour when they were launched. Sputnik 1, the observatory said, took to space on Oct. 4 at 8 a.m. E.S.T. Sputnik 111 was launched in the middle of the afternoon on Nov. 1. Its orbit is more elliptical, rising higher and sinking lower, than the orbit of Sputnik...
...itself with atomic weapons lest it bring atomic devastation on itself. Added to their outcries was the opposition to nuclear weapons expressed by 18 of Germany's most eminent scientists, and by aging Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Adenauer decided that it was politically wiser to backtrack temporarily, assured the Russians that Germany did not have any atomic weapons and had not asked...
Although Butler later tried to backtrack somewhat in his accusations, he pressed his demand for a CBS showing and again betrayed the chip he wears on his shoulder for the press at large. Petulantly, he hoped that "the infant medium of TV [will] not fall into some of the habits of the older medium of newspaper reporting." If CBS did not meet his demand, he threatened darkly, it might be inviting "legislation...
...Avery Brundage promoted a new addition to the Olympic oath: "I am now, and intend to remain, an amateur." He seemed surprised to learn that there might be athletes who could not predict their futures and could not sign in good conscience. As complaints poured in, Brundage tried to backtrack: "There is no desire to interfere with those who intend to pursue a legitimate career in physical education, sport administration, press, radio, etc." Just when aspiring pros became illegitimate, Brundage did not say. ¶ Spinning the ball with a vicious kick off the pock-marked turf of Manchester...