Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violence, the fear that her own writings had contributed to the bloodiness of the uprisings and the slaughter of many young radicals disillusioned Sand, causing her to retreat to her old country home and withdraw from politics to write peacefully until her death in 1876. Horrified by the violence, she opposed the revolutionary uprisings and the rule of the 1871 Commune. But she retained the belief that socialism would occur gradually at a point distantly in the future, writing, "I am, as always socially red...but one must never impose one's convictions by force...
...Fraser bowed out gracefully. Last week he got his reward. Woodcock, who is 65 and must retire this year, announced that after consulting with him, the three other serious contenders for the presidency-U.A.W. Vice Presidents Ken Bannon, Irving Bluestone and Duane ("Pat") Greathouse-all had decided to withdraw. So the 60-year-old Fraser is a shoo-in for election at the union convention...
...separate offices in the Christian and Moslem quarters of the city. Some bankers fear a run on reopening day, but on the basis of experience so far among banks that have reopened, more Beirutis are likely to deposit-from such war-time enterprises as looting and protection rackets-than withdraw...
...opaque eyeglasses and the fox struggling along on a crutch "give the impression of the abjectness of disability and stress discrimination against disabled unfortunates." The group's campaign has drawn a public apology for "thoughtlessness" from the major Japanese publisher of the children's classic, along with promises to withdraw at least four editions...
...often states positions in a manner intended to give the least possible of fense to his audience. To a conservative audience: "We should not withdraw our troops from South Korea, except on a phased basis." He also has a way of seeming to agree with an argument?he smiles, he says, "I understand"?that leads people to think he is agreeing with them, thereby raising false expectations. One of the serious problems of Carter's presidency may be a tendency to raise expectations too high, to promise more than he can deliver...