Word: fold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unable through diplomacy to put our weight behind realization of a coalition government, democratic in spirit and action, it would seem better for us and for China that we fold our tents and quietly depart...
...supporters looked to Yussab as the only man who could 1) salvage Coptic education and finances after centuries of ruinous monopoly by ignorant monks; 2) bring the schismatic subjects of Haile Selassie back to the Coptic fold. Yussab who has crowned Haile Selassie, planned soon to make an almost unprecedented journey to Addis Ababa to placate the Copts' only foreign ally. The 1,500,000 Copts pray that Yussab's diplomacy may avert the wave of persecution which they foresee as an outcome of a resurgent Islam...
When Wisconsin's long-ailing Progressive Party died of malnutrition last spring (TIME, March 25), Progressive Senator Robert M. LaFollette hastily jumped back to the Republican fold. Wisconsin's old line G.O.P. stalwarts cried that he was just a New Deal wolf in ersatz wool. Republican State Chairman Tom Coleman began stringing barbed wire at the political water holes, vowed to keep the last of the LaFollettes off the G.O.P. ticket...
Into the Money. It was not until 1937 that the company started selling books through bookstores; and not until 1945 did Gerstenberg and Ettinger venture out of the nonfiction fold...
...purpose of the new departmental structure, Professor Haertlein said, is two-fold: to combine under one faculty for undergraduates and graduates all electric's and communication engineering, formerly under a combination of Arts and Sciences and Engineering Faculties; and to discourage specialization below the graduate level by students interested in all kinds of engineering...