Word: retrenchment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco's Franks refused to panic. "We've fallen back before," he said, "and we've always regrouped. This is the last time we're falling back. That's a promise. We will retrench and dig in and start to go again." Whereupon the Giants went out and lost their third game in a row, 8-2, to the Milwaukee Braves - while the Dodgers were winning their seventh straight over St. Louis, 4-3. Next day, Willie Mays crashed his 50th homer, arid the Giants finally snapped out of their losing streak with...
...Merck & Co. to find himself suddenly doctoring the nation's money ailments. He uses his chummy ties with the nation's top businessmen to persuade them to restrict foreign investing, last week received the first reports from 623 corporate chiefs on what they are doing to retrench. White House aides grumble that he has stolen too much of the spotlight in the payments-balancing act, and that he too vigorously defends the business establishment. Unlike the last several Commerce Secretaries, Connor has become a major adviser to the President, so far has helped to beat down Martin...
...recently advanced by Columnist Walter Lippmann, who deplored "scatteration" of U.S. resources and suggested that the U.S. concentrate on the "vital" areas of Europe and the Americas, and more or less ignore Asia and Africa. The notion that it may be in the U.S.'s "self-interest" to retrench crosses both party and ideological lines...
...strong a civil rights bill as possible. And it is my judgment, after studying the statements of men with acute political sensibilities (such as Rep. Emanuel Celler and President Kennedy), that a march on Washington by Negroes this summer will force many moderates from Southern and Western states to retrench, and vote against the bill. It is not so much a question, as Mr. Schiesser says, of "allenating" these moderates. Again, it is a question of politics. Many of these men would not be able to vote for a bill if it appeared to their constituencies that they were bowing...
...Italy for medical treatment. While he was away, the heir apparent, Crown Prince Badr, unable to hold the warring Yemeni tribesmen in line, emptied the royal treasury in paying out great sums to keep their allegiance. When the Imam got back last August, he had to retrench. He sent home some 70 Egyptian technicians brought in by his son, stopped the costly flow of rifles to the south. The British Governor of Aden, Sir William Luce, an old adversary of the Imam, astutely decided the time was ripe to pay a visit to the British legation in Yemen...