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Amherst traditionally has employed a slow, methodical, ball-controlling offense; two years ago the Jeffs beat Harvard 51-41 with their slow-down tactics. But nothing of the sort will happen tonight; the Crimson should win by about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Five Begins Season Tonight | 12/2/1964 | See Source »

France's Western allies have been puzzled by these antics also and by de Gaulle's slow-down tactics on the summit conference. The French nuclear test in the Sahara is going to be embarrassing at a time when serious consideration is being given to disarmament. The moving of air bases from France to West Germany was strategically inconvenient...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: The Future of an Illusion | 11/4/1959 | See Source »

During and since the meeting, the Paris press, particularly that of the Right and Left, accused Bevin and Acheson of bullying France into accepting a new dominant Germany. They recall Schuman's telling a press conference, for instance, that, though there would be a slow-down in dismantling German industry, such plants as the huge Thyssen Steel Works in the Ruhr, which made ten per cent of the Reich's war output, would definitely not be removed from proscription. On Thanksgiving day, when the protocol was announced, however, dismantling of Thyssen came to a half...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

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