Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulletins and official communiques (as in Warsaw), people journeyed out to the suburbs to see the damage caused by Nazi bombers and to look at the wreckage of planes shot down. The cafes and the Bank of France remained open, and people stood in queues at local banks to withdraw their savings...
However, if increasingly more Americans through reading TIME are basing their thinking on facts instead of propaganda, I can be altruistic enough to withdraw my complaint...
...Attorney General Ellis Arnall of Georgia started a movement to withdraw from aliens the immunities and safeguards guaranteed to citizens by the Federal Constitution...
Guards to the Rear. Perhaps King Leopold surrendered when and as he did because he knew or suspected that the British were about to withdraw, as they had from Norway, with their host's Army covering their rear. Certainly his surrender forced their immediate withdrawal. But it was an orderly withdrawal with the wounded sent first; a courageous, masterful rear-guard action conducted by General Lord ("Tiger") Gort in full cooperation with the French...
...eyes. Latest military reports, said the King, showed that the Belgian Army was bearing the brunt of the German attack. Behind it the British and French were already backing toward the Channel. Further resistance would not save Belgium. In his opinion, King Leopold said, the Belgian Army should withdraw from...