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Word: withdrawal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word from Moscow-"An effort to evade U.N. debate of Syria's complaint," snarled Pravda-got through to Intelligence Chief Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj and his fellow leftists in the Syrian government. In an abject turnabout, President Kuwatly hastily got off a message begging Saud to withdraw his offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Public Spectacle | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...also cutting back. So are the Martin Co., North American and other major contractors. The picture is even darker for the thousands of subcontractors who sometimes do as much as 60% of the actual work on each plane. As prime contractors are forced in turn to defer payments or withdraw subcontracts, the Strategic Industries Association estimates that 500 subcontractors in Southern California alone will go under before year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Out of Fuel | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Might it not be prudent to withdraw statehood from Arkansas and give it to Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 14, 1957 | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Capitalist Shangri-La. Bitter over high taxes, Government interference, the scorn of intellectuals and the reproof of religious leaders, the really tough-minded tycoons gradually withdraw from society to a hideout in the mountains. There, under the leadership of a mysterious physicist named John Gait, they await the fall of the old, Socialist-crippled, soft and degenerate order, so they can build a new society. The mountain-ringed capitalist Shangri-La sounds like a prospectus for an exclusive, upper-middle-class suburb in Westchester, and is dominated by a slim granite column upholding a solid-gold dollar sign. (Readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Solid-Gold Dollar Sign | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

President Eisenhower has refused to withdraw regular Army troops and federalized Arkansas National Guardsmen from the school until he is satisfied that the court-endorsed Central High integration plan will be enforced by local authorities...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Russian U.N. Delegation Declines U.S. Proposals of Missile Control; European Press Eases Up on U.S. | 10/11/1957 | See Source »

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