Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chief of Staff of the Army when this military advice was given?" asked Douglas, theatrically cupping his ears and leaning over the rostrum, as if to listen for an answer. "It was Dwight D. Eisenhower!" And who did the delegates think made the U.S. proposal before the U.N. to withdraw the troops from Korea? Again the ear business, again the triumphant answer: "John Foster Dulles...
...audacity. He charged two enemy bunkers. Once more he fired off all his ammunition. He went down the hill and back a third time, roamed the heights throwing grenades into enemy positions. In all, Rosser killed 13 Communists before he rejoined Company L, which by then was able to withdraw in order with its wounded...
...squadron of the British fleet, entrusted to Commodore Martin, suddenly appeared in the Bay of Naples [m 1742], and threatened an immediate bombardment unless the King would engage in writing to withdraw his troops from the Spanish army, and to observe in future a strict neutrality. The Neapolitan court, wholly unprepared for the defense of the city, endeavored to elude the demand by prolonging the negotiation. But the gallant Englishman...laid his watch upon the table in his cabin, and told the negotiators that their answer must be given within the space of an hour, or that the bombardment should...
...first one." He did, however, read the cover story about him in TIME (Oct. 22). "I read the whole smear article and all the untruths," said McCarthy. Since TIME was guilty of "degenerate lying," he had written to "practically all" of TIME'S advertisers, urging them to withdraw their...