Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world go round," she said. "Today it's dollars. The U.S. could save the world economically, but I'm not sure you're going to do it. The danger isn't American imperialism, as Henry Wallace thinks, but the idea that America may decide to withdraw from the world again...
...world's taken my advice," the 68-year old novelist chuckled, after being asked whether the views expressed in "A Passage to India" are his final opinions of the Indian question. He stated, however, that he is worried about "how the Indians are going to manage after the British withdraw...
...elusive identify thus far, the HDC announced last night. In a typical letter summing up the main attraction of the competition, Henry H. Arthur, 2nd '46 penned passionately, "if my answer is correct and the prize includes a date with the above mentioned brunette, I wish to withdraw my entry...
...Maritime Commission's Marine Flasher docked in New York last week, some 300 passengers emerged sizzling. They promptly fired off a petition charging that the ship was, in effect, a floating flophouse. Yet the Maritime Commission made no move to withdraw the Marine Flasher or six similar troop-type ships from Atlantic passenger service. It knew that its ships were substandard but it kept them operating only because transatlantic ship space is so scarce...
...untiring host for visiting Europeans and student disciples, he is a connoisseur of French foods and the delicate Continental wines of which there are "only imitations in this country but for one I have discovered in the Finger Lakes of New York State." Those who meet him and withdraw at an apparent forbidding austerity soon learn that Gropius possesses a keen sense of humor (hampered somewhat by an incomplete appreciation of American slang) and the greatest warmth for people who are young-in years or in ideas. At Robinson Hall his carefully screened graduate students from the four corners...