Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along the way, he turns up quotable but anonymous sources. Says "a scientist" of life in the atomic wilds: "Our experiments have grown so dangerous that we've had to withdraw into regions once inhabited by outlaws. Who knows whether we shan't come to the same sort of end? Captured, lynched, hanged-perhaps society will want to make us the scapegoat for all this damage...
Since Secretary of State Dulles uttered those words ten weeks ago, a confused discussion about what he meant has spread across the U.S. and around the world. The questions snowballed. Did Dulles mean that the U.S. would abandon local ground defense, perhaps withdraw its ground troops from Europe? Would the U.S. rely solely on air-atomic power? Did Dulles mean that any war would automatically be turned into the big atomic war? Did "instantly" mean that the President would take the U.S. into war without consulting Congress or allies...
...nearer." At 2030, Red artillery knocks out the radio and searches for the remaining Algerian mortars. The Algerian infantrymen shift their mortars around the perimeter and keep the Reds at bay. "Our barbed wire has disappeared under heaps of their dead," an officer reports. At 2300, the Communists withdraw. Weather still blocks out French tactical...
...only group with an interest in movies as an art form. The United Nations Council's Unesco Division-the "C" is for "cultural"- also has an interest in international art forms. Although the Council has seen fit to withdraw temporarily from the film business the UNESCO Division is currently the sponsor of a folk dance series-and is not making a penny out of it. Sincerely, Samuel Olevsen...
...believe that Mr. Shea concurs in what has been going on, and I feel he too should withdraw from the group until true conservatism is again expressed on the campus...