Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class of '52 was about 200 larger than normal when it entered in the fall of 1948 because the draft that year had not taken any students and prosperous times meant that fewer men had to withdraw for financial reasons...
...other proponent had put the case for U.S. troops to Europe more expertly. The Wherry resolution, Dewey said, was the final "little toehold of isolationism . . . the last gasp of ... a school of thought which basically would like to withdraw from all the world to our own shores...
...marines and other divisions of Ridgway's Eighth Army ground their way northward over the mountains of central Korea. Their general's orders were simple: "Use every daylight hour to seek out and destroy the enemy. Inflict maximum casualties and sustain a minimum of your own. Withdraw to strong defensive positions at night. Search every piece ground. Do not push on until you have eliminated every Communist...
...Wednesday the United Labor Policy Committee voted to withdraw all union men from the mobilization machinery, in protest against Wilson's management. Specifically, they complained that wages had been frozen though rents, retail and farm prices, and profits were allowed to rise. Economic Stabilizer Johnston answered these criticisms Thursday by several concessions, allowing cost-of-living pay increases to carry wages above the previously-announced ceiling. But the deadlock remains, founded on a deeper dissatisfaction of labor...
...long before he would want more than the six divisions? Said Marshall: "If the Lord is good to us through what may be a decade of tension," the U.S. might even be able to withdraw some troops. Then he did not believe the defense of Europe to be hopeless? Said Marshall: "No, sir. 1940 looked far more hopeless...