Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural that the young Sultan should lean more and more on Marshal Lyautey, "the grand old man of Morocco," who was the French Resident General. It was largely because of their mutual confidence that France was able so completely to pacify the country that she was able to withdraw two-thirds of her troops during...
...what the future holds for them, are unable to develop their own genius in government. If the United States wants to continue governing the Philippines, it should do so, and should assume complete responsibility for them; if it wants the Filipinos to govern themselves, it should let them, and withdraw completely. Any midway solution breeds only trouble...
...view the stein-clicking proclivities of Messrs. Brock and Schlee who no doubt thoroughly enjoy beer-drinking in jurisdictions where it is not a crime. If an American representative abroad may not be permitted in the vicinity of alcoholic beverages nor witness drinking it would be necessary to withdraw all of our representatives, pending international prohibition, for alcohol and drinking are all about them and they should be removed from contamination. In going about Munich it would be necessary for Consul General Curtis to do a perpetual zigzag in dodging from one side of the street to the other...
...world, or a least that particle of it which is represented in the audience at Manhattan theatres, has come a long way in 25 years. Now maidens can see grisly horror, and withdraw between the acts to smoke a cigaret and talk calmly of their minor vices. But when they are in the theatre they can scarcely resist...
...willing workers listened politely to Mr. Francisco. They heard later that he spent a whole evening trying to telephone across the continent to Governor Smith and persuade him to withdraw at once. They were not offended when, departing in a huff, Mr. Francisco addressed them as a "meeting of the Bowery of a few small western towns...