Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stukas, dive-bombing the British guns, were crumpled by fighters from South Africa, and the guns kept firing. Meanwhile, from the south a British light force sped around to harry Rommel's flank. After eleven successive days of relentless attack, Rommel's weary battalions had to withdraw to reform and prepare for a new attack...
...Athos, jutting into the Aegean like a prong of Poseidon's three-forked scepter, has been a place of refuge -for men only. No woman has knowingly been allowed to desecrate by her presence the huge cluster of monasteries atop the Holy Mountain, where bearded, black-cowled priests withdraw from worldly pleasures in the spiritual home of the Greek Orthodox Church. Even female cats and dogs and beasts of the field are barred, "so that their mating may not furnish an outlandish spectacle to souls which detest all forms of indecency...
...interview with the United Press, he said that they could gain it only by giving all Asiatic peoples political independence and racial equality. The U.S., he said, might have brought about peace but had lost the opportunity; but even now it would be possible for the U.S. to withdraw from the war if she would divest herself of "the intoxication of immense wealth...
Partly because Nazi subs got four Brazilian freighters, which caused Brazil temporarily to withdraw all her shipping, U.S. coffee imports have been dwindling. In April only 1,000,000 bags were unloaded on U.S. docks, 40% less than three months before. Furthermore, U.S. stocks of coffee last December were about 4,000,000 bags, enough for three months; by May 1, according to Commodity Research Bureau figures, they were down to 3,140,000 bags. But more supplies are in prospect and U.S. coffee-fiends need not fear any immediate shortage. Meanwhile the Army is boosting U.S. coffee consumption...
...completely open the way for United Nations forces to flow into Manchuria and Karafuto. They would endanger the eastern horn of Hokkaido as the Karafuto offensive would endanger that to the west. So great would be the peril to Japan that Tokyo's first thought would be to withdraw its forces for the defense of the homeland. The United Nations could then accept 'absurd' risks. Once entrenched in Hokkaido, they need no longer fear any of the Nipponese far-flung pincers. The garrisons of Alaska, Hawaii and the American West Coast could be safely thrown into...