Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Continuance of the ROTC program at each of the colleges now hinges on the approval of the schools concerned. If a college president requests continuation, the Air Force will withdraw plans to drop the unit. Col. Waldo Jones, professor of Air Science and Tactics, said last night that "the whole thing depends completely upon the decision of the administration," and declined to elaborate...
...novel is handsome Alexander Golightly (Alexis to his friends), who is in his late teens when Aspects of Love begins. Aspiring to the labors of Venus rather than Hercules, Alexis proposes two weeks of illicit bliss to Rose, a stranded French actress with a Greek drape shape. They withdraw to an unused south-of-France villa owned by Alexis' uncle. But the uncle, Sir George Dillingham, a 62-year-old Edwardian dandy steals a march on the lovers with his secret weapon ("The old Rolls stopped noiselessly outside"). Achieving complete surprise, Uncle George manages to detach Rose from Alexis...
...lawyer's answer was to withdraw the application, and at week's end it seemed that McGinnis would have no second chance to head the Boston & Maine. Was McGinnis really necessary? In its nine months without a president, the Boston & Maine ran on time, improved its commuter service, picked up new freight business and clicked along from a $2,745,000 deficit to a $2,352,000 profit...
...announcing the increase Bundy emphasized that the College will compensate by expanding its financial aid program. "No individual now at Harvard will be required to withdraw as a result of hardship incurred in trying to meet the increased costs," he said...
...little more than two years ago, without a struggle of any kind, the British agreed to withdraw from the Sudan as soon as an independent provisional government could "Sudanize" the administration and write its own constitution. Last November, 57 years after Sandhurst-trained Winston Churchill charged into the Battle of Omdurman, the regimental band of the Roy al Leicestershires played God Save the Queen and the last British soldier left the Sudan...