Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to the Farm. Pennsylvania's Leader was substituting for Harry Truman (who said he had been ordered by his doctor to withdraw from his scheduled appearance). But at times it seemed that Leader had merely picked up "Give-'Em-Hell Harry's" script...
This terse weekend announcement signaled that President Eisenhower must withdraw presently from the Washington whirlpool, and perhaps from future political battles altogether. We regret that the President, must suffer illness, because of the sorrow surrounding any sickness, and, more important, because the Republican Party needs Eisenhower to fulfill its duties of national leadership. The President's present successor, Richard Nixon, is an obvious reason why this is true...
...bloody conflict after World War I. NATO officers have always been careful not to let Greek and Turkish units meet in mock combat, for fear that they might begin firing in earnest. Now that Greece was embroiled with both Britain and Turkey, the Greeks last week prudently decided to withdraw all their forces from NATO's scheduled war games in the Mediterranean...
...resignation to "guarantee peace"-an offer announced that morning by the General Confederation of Labor and the Peronista Party. But all except the most simple-minded Argentine knew that this was only a maneuver. So it was no surprise when Perón said, "I have decided to withdraw my resignation." What was surprising was the ferocity of his assault on his enemies, identified only as that old whipping boy of Perón balcony speeches, "the oligarchy...
...Satellite Row there has been no cheering about Russia's new course in world diplomacy. Communist bosses in these areas tug nervously at their white collars when they reflect upon Russia's abrupt decision to withdraw from Austria and her new-found friendship for the unforgetting Tito. In their apparent anxiety to please the West, is it possible that the Russians will go as far as to ring a few changes in the bureaucratic hierarchies of the satellite states? After Geneva, the local bosses felt a little better: the West had not pressed its demands for liberation...