Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glib tongue." The facts, he said, were these: "I was never an OSS agent. I never participated in any secret, behind-the-lines mission ... I never captured Otto Hahn or any other German physicist ... I wish before my Heavenly Father that I might undo this wrong." Stringfellow offered to withdraw from the election if the party asked...
...America to withdraw into isolation would condemn all Europe to Russian Communist subjugation and our famous and beloved island to death and ruin. And yet, six months ago, a politician who has held office in a British Cabinet [i.e., Nye Bevan], and who one day aspires to become leader of the Labor Party, did not hesitate to tell the Americans to "go it alone." One cannot imagine any more fatal disaster than that this evil counselor should be taken at his word...
...prussienne and force in them the soul of a German soldier?" Even old Robert Schuman, who probably sacrificed his political future by his long fight for EDC, assumed a slight tinge of nationalism. "There is the risk," said he of the London plan, "that Germany will one day withdraw from this fragile syndicate...
...truckloads of Foreign Legionnaires clattered across the mile-long Doumer Bridge over the flood-swollen Red River to join the rest of the French Viet Nam garrison 60 miles southeast at the port of Haiphong. There the French may stay till May, when under the Geneva agreements they must withdraw further south, below the Geneva dividing line at the 17th parallel, and leave all of north Viet Nam's rich rice bowl to the Reds...
...Shame, shame!" bellowed outraged Bevanites. "Withdraw! Let Nye reply!" Burly Arthur Deakin, chief of the Transport and General Workers Union and Bevan's frequent antagonist, lumbered to his feet to demand that Donnelly be allowed to continue. Bevan's pent-up anger and frustration burst. "Shut up," he hissed savagely at Deakin. "Shut up yourself!" yelled Deakin. "You big bully!" cried Bevan. "You're afraid of him," snapped Deakin. "Bully yourself!"-accompanying this last thrust by what one newspaper called "a gesture not usually used in polite society...