Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year Japan has begun again to withdraw into its hermit shell. English signs have been taken down. American films have been banned. Cabarets have been closed. Foreign clothes have become taboo for Japanese women. Even baseball has been Japanofied, with Japanese phrases substituted for such terms as "home run " "foul" and "kill the umpire" and with all bats made of bamboo. But last week Japan's xenophobes ran into a linguistic stone wall. Trying to enforce a new language law, designed to purify Japanese of foreign words, authorities found that English words had become deeply embedded...
World War II quaked her world, as all worlds. Fissures cracked labor; Communism split youth movements; wrath against aggressors blotted up pacifism. Some time ago Mrs. Roosevelt quietly resigned from the Spanish Rescue Ship Mission, withdrew from the American Youth Congress, apparently determined to withdraw from all Communist-tainted organizations. But Mrs. Roosevelt still had a smile for organized Labor. She spoke to a mass meeting of strikers of the Leviton Mfg. Co. plant in Brooklyn, said: "I am afraid I agree with you," thus helping to rouse a new surge of strike enthusiasm...
...Threatening to withdraw copyright privileges...
...would win, refused to allow his statement to be printed in the French press, although Colonel Lindbergh's statement that he hoped for a stalemate peace was printed at length. The French have understood who the U. S. sometimes plays a forceful aggressive part in world affairs, sometimes withdraw into apathy and indifference; but they too were alive to the force whcih...
Mussolini Cunctator. New York Times Military Expert Hanson Baldwin said last week that when the British attack on Sidi Barrani began Dec. 9, the troops had strict orders to withdraw if that town had not fallen in three days. By last week this tentative operation and the Eritrean push (see col. 3) had grown into a campaign of conquest covering a quarter of a continent. To the always confident British this was not surprising. But the only reasonable explanation for the Italians' hasty retreat on all fronts was either that the Italians had lost their military minds or that...