Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorite, according to last week's poll, was May Splitch. However, she was forced to withdraw after breaking both ankles in the semi-finals...
White had charged that Peterson planned to participate in the coup until adverse publicity caused him to withdraw...
...third and most decisive of these victories, foreshadowed at the recent NATO session in Paris, became official last week when the U.S., Britain and France, in different but "convergent" notes, rejected Khrushchev's proposals for all occupying nations to withdraw from a "free Berlin," which would then be isolated no miles inside the Iron Curtain. The obligation to protect the freedom of more than 2,000,000 West Berliners, the notes said, "is a right and responsibility solemnly accepted by the three Western powers." But, they added, if Khrushchev will abandon the "menace" of his six-month timetable...
...dinner, they did not smile. They knew that the jig, as well as the year, was up. "For the salvation of the republic," announced General Eulogio Cantillo at the end of a gloomy meal, "the military forces have decided that it is necessary for General Batista to withdraw from power...
...forces had set out, and the necessity for radio silence, he explains, meant that he could not coordinate his strategy or tactics with theirs. Faced with bad luck, disorganized communications and the blazing evidence that another Japanese force in Surigao Strait had been shattered, all Shima could do was withdraw. The admiral's account: "At that time, things flashed in my head were thus: ... If we continued dashing further north, it was quite clear that we should only fall into a ready trap...