Word: withdraw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...longer conservative. The charm of an irresistible personality, smoldering through the evening, never revealing more than a flicker of its hidden fire, had burned home its deep impression. When she sang her most famous piece, "Violetera," where she goes among the audience with little violet bunches to offer musingly, withdraw capriciously, bestow impetuously, the starched and bejeweled Manhattanites arose and cheered. Her acknowledgment was?a quiet curtsy. More cheers. She sang an encore. The final "Brava!" The audience went home to talk it over, a new fad that promises to last weeks after Meller's departure...
...cannot. In both areas France is continuously the attacked, not the attacker; and there is no guarantee that peace, if made now, would last three months. . . . Abd-el-Krim has cost us too dearly for us not to fight on until we can conclude a lasting peace. To withdraw from Syria would be to deliver the subject peoples there to massacre and misery...
...store in Vincennes, Ind. In 1867 Andrew Saks opened one in Washington, D. C. Both grew vast and branched out. In 1923 Gimbel's descendants bought from Saks' relatives their Manhattan store (TIME, Dec. 14). So next April 30 those relatives, Isadore, Joseph I. and William A., will withdraw from their Manhattan activities...
...with respect to the Bosphorus, and to furnish a pretext for a general war when they found the time ripe for one. The second of their endeavors was to involve England so thoroughly in their schemes and diplomacy that when the crucial moment came she would be unable to withdraw or to support Germany. In the third place they both agreed to go on increasing their military preparations...
...France and Germany had become involved up to the hilt over a matter intrinsically of secondary import. Premier Briand was expected by his countrymen to insert Poland as a buttress against anti-French influence on the Council from Germany. Chancellor Luther was daily instructed from Berlin that he must withdraw the German application for League membership if the Council was going to be packed against Germany. Sir Austen Chamberlain found himself in a still more awkward position. The British press flayed him daily because he did not insist that, whatever happened, Germany must be got within the League...