Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks the U.S. command in Korea has faced a crucial choice between two plans of battle. One was to withdraw to the shortest possible defense perimeter immediately surrounding Pusan and build up within it for a counterthrust. A shorter perimeter could have been more easily held by fewer troops, giving battle-weary G.I.s a chance to rest up in the rear...
Finally, the assault force was ordered to withdraw. Men too exhausted to cry crawled back down the ridge with no name. For all their terrible sacrifice the ridge was still in enemy hands...
...lens (directly behind the pupil, with no intervening "cataract space") rediscovered; not until the 18th Century was a whole defective lens removed. Over the centuries, Dr. Kirby found, the number of instruments invented for the removal of cataracts (e.g., a glass tube and a hollow needle to withdraw the cataract by suction; a metal loop to flip it out) rivaled the number of operations performed...
...excitement last week, La Sarre's Mayor François Xavier Martel was stricken with a heart attack. Members of the sobered town council motored 52 miles to talk things over with Baptist Pastor Barnhart. They would withdraw all charges against the group, they said, and would give the Baptists police protection for further street meetings. All they asked was that he not press charges of false arrest. Said Pastor Barnhart: "You can't fight...
...Last week, she formally announced that she was giving up her political crusade. On doctors' orders she would undergo a long rest and treatment "to recover from ailments caused by imprisonment." From his Lisbon exile, the Spanish pretender, Don Juan, had himself urged his faithful follower to withdraw from the fight for the sake of her health. The Duchess had made her decision even before her last trial, she said, but she had kept it to herself so that no one would assume that she was "bowing to injustice or trying to obtain the sympathy of the court...