Word: disbandment
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...barbarous manner in which this action was carried out" and cabled the statement to Jordan's King Abdullah, leader of the Arab coalition. (Three months later, fed up with the terrorists' irresponsibility, the Haganah itself fought a pitched battle with the Irgun troops, forced them to disband as a private army...
...prophet Jeremiah was hardly more sorrowful than sad-faced General Charles de Gaulle, announcing his decision last week to disband his political party. De Gaulle has always had a distaste for what he calls "the sterile games of politics." Although his Rally of the French People polled 4,300,000 votes in the 1951 elections and, next to the Communists and Socialists, is the largest party (85 seats) in the National Assembly, De Gaulle announced that henceforth his party members will act "in their individual capacity ... in the games, the poisons and the delights of the system." Reason: declining public...
...Washington, he left his post because of a tiff with the wartime Chungking regime. In 1947 he said: "Liberal is a terrible term these days, so you'd better just call me an independent." He wrote a letter to "Dear Mr. Mao" urging the Red leader to disband the Red army if and when the Communists joined the government. Now, five years later, the mainland Reds spewed out a poisonous torrent of calumny against him, and Chinese neutralists in Hong Kong and Singapore, who sigh for a nonexistent third force, sulked because Hu had ignored them...
This production is not by the Brattle Players. The Brattle Theatre proper announced its closing this fall because of lack of funds. It was expected that the Players, an independent organization would disband permanently, but a new drive to reopen the theatre is now being considered...
...Bevan group," he said, hand on heart. "Let us put off [a vote] until the next session of [Parliament]." But the majority turned him down. By 188 votes to 51 (with 53 Laborites absent or abstaining), the Parliamentary Labor Party endorsed Attlee's ultimatum. The Bevanites would probably disband as a group, but this would hardly stop them from getting together informal-like, and thinking and talking alike...