Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opening the New York World's Fair, Governor Nelson Rockefeller suggests sarcastically that Senator Goldwater might like to buy up the armed forces himself and use them "to subjugate the emerging nations of Asia and Africa." Apparently missing the sarcasm, sixteen Asian and African nations close their pavilions and withdraw their delegations...
Pereira was riding a Wesleyan opponent in his first match when his rival suddenly jerked his head upwards. The blow split Pereira's chin. A few minutes and seven stitches later, doctors advised the Crimson captain to withdraw from the tournament...
...only because of the current of apprehension that rippled through the world's capitals on the news of Kennedy's murder. European statesmen feared that Johnson, even though he had helped move the U.S. away from isolationism as a fledgling Representative under Franklin D. Roosevelt, would withdraw G.I.s from the Continent and retreat into a Fortress America. Asians worried that Johnson, even though he had been one of F.D.R.'s most ardent New Dealers, would not be "flexible" and "liberal" enough. Africans fretted that Johnson, although he had outraged Southern conservatives in 1960 when he tacked civil...
...fall of 1936--a thin, 19-year-old graduate of Choate with a mop of unruly hair and a tooth-paste ad smile. Originally, he did not want to come to Harvard. Kennedy enrolled at Princeton in 1935, but a case of yellow jaundice forced him to withdraw. His four years as a Harvard undergraduate were to be inconsistent, as were his later relations with the University...
Whether Egbert's absence proves temporary or permanent, his reign at Studebaker has produced controversies as well as cars. Egbert balks at the slightest hint that Studebaker might eventually withdraw from automaking. His radically styled Avanti sports car, tooled up at a cost of about $25 million, is a failure. Though Egbert predicted that at least 10,000 a year would be sold, the nine-month total is only 2,083. "If the Avanti had made it," says a former Studebaker staffer, "Egbert would have been a genius...