Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Prime Minister Clement Attlee told the House of Commons last July that His Majesty's government would not withdraw from Abadan completely, the British lion seemed ready for an oldtime imperial roar. From Cyprus to the Persian Gulf, British paratroops, marines and warships stood by. They were ready to go into action if Iran tried to seize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s huge refinery...
...hassling and wrangling, the meeting was hopelessly deadlocked. Then Giles stalked in and declared dramatically: "My first interest in baseball is for the welfare of baseball itself. My second ... is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles. In the best interests of baseball, I wish to withdraw my name." Frick was elected unanimously on the 19th ballot...
...would be hard enough for a student simply to withdraw from unreasonable reality into classrooms and libraries, with the present prospect of military service and war hanging over him. It is many times harder for him to take his learning and apply it to the unreasonable, uneducated world which is pushing him around. Yet that is what he must do if there is to be any end to the unreasonableness of this summer. That is the primary concern at today's registration...
...redoubtable peace-lovers quickly set to work. "Mothers are to instill into their children a deep hatred of the imperialist warmongers, the murderers of Korean women and children," announced the Bulgarian Peace Congress. Early this year, something called the World Peace Council demanded that the United Nations withdraw its charge that the Chinese were aggressors...
...Wafd government has been negotiating for nearly two years with London to revise the 1936 treaty, which gives the British bases in the Suez Canal Zone. Currently the negotiations are bogged down. Many Wafd leaders do not actually want the British to withdraw from the Canal Zone because they know that the Egyptian army, miserably beaten by the Israelis three years ago, could never alone defend Egypt. King Farouk himself is known to oppose British evacuation but would never dare admit it in public...