Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last spring black students at Cornell occupied a building for several days and demanded that the university pressure Gulf to withdraw from the Portuguese colony of Angola...
Black students at Cornell occupied a building for several days last spring with demands that included university pressure on Gulf to withdraw from the Portuguese colony of Angola...
There's a paradox. You must watch these films with the simultaneous realization that you cannot withdraw from what you consider violence, (and here I'm speaking essentially of the Peckinpah films) because the violence that surrounds you daily exceeds your wildest sadistic dreams; and despite that knowledge, what you're watching on the screen is a fiction. It didn't happen. The movies are at once totally representative, And not representative...
...upon an unresolved territorial issue as the pretext for an attack. In addition, the Soviets would welcome a more relaxed atmosphere in Europe for two reasons. They could avail themselves of badly needed Western technological and economic cooperation, and would be able to place pressure on the U.S. to withdraw its forces from Europe, thus leaving the Soviet Union as the dominant military power in the area...
...withdraw your investment until the administrators come to terms with us?" Beally Boss, a striking worker and member of 1199, asked Zuckerman in his class yesterday...