Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slowly towards the customs house, his arms over his head. Bonner, in tears, brought the wounded woman back to the Indian side of the border and then, with U.P. Correspondent John Hlavacek, went out for the two men who had rushed after the woman. Indian onlookers began shouting "Please withdraw, satyagrahis, please withdraw." The satyagrahis crawled backward inch by inch until they reached Indian soil...
...enemy. It was like being the last people on earth. But Pierre's family was no cheerful, God-fearing Swiss Family Robinson. They had no religion, no clear rules for living. Down below, Pierre knew, men were fighting and dying. Did he have the right to withdraw from the slaughter...
...drama of a family, stripped to its barest elements-man, woman, boy, girl. Their problems are ordinary, but there is no chance for the ordinary relief from them-the distractions and consolations of society. Pierre and Yvonne feel isolated even from each other. The children become alien to them, withdraw into themselves...
...seemed highly improbable in 1953 that Memphis. TVA's second biggest municipal customer, would withdraw from TVA and forfeit its substantial revenue from retailing TVA power. A more plausible solution would be for AEC, which was then gobbling up 25% of TVA's output, to buy power from a private utility (as it was already doing elsewhere). AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss agreed with Dodge that this was feasible. So did Electric Energy, Inc. President J. W. McAfee, whose Joppa, 111. plant was built to supply AEC's installation at Paducah, Ky.. and could have provided...
They are "briefed" on an "operation"; they carry not guns or rods, but "weapons" supplied by their own ordnance officer; they attack an "objective" and never make a getaway-they "withdraw." When they are not in action, most of them behave like polite, narrow-lapelled Madison Avenue admen...