Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United States), the resolution condemning the Soviet Union, Bulgaria and East Germany for suppressing students, and a resolution decrying some manifestations of progressive education were all substantially written by members of the conservative caucus and assed. On the other hand, conservatives successfully opposed proposals asking colleges to withdraw from the recent civil defense program, supporting federal aid to elementary and secondary education, and endorsing civil disobedience...
...letter to the Daily News, officers of the Union said they agreed to withdraw the invitation after being convinced that the governor's presence constituted a "threat" to law and order. But members said privately that they had bowed under strong pressure from the university...
...these problems of the merely real become trivial from the vantage point of metaphysics (Phil. 155), but one need not withdraw so utterly to escape: Spanish 10 surveys Spanish literature for those who can read it, and Soc. Rel. 106 examines the social structure of China and Japan...
...myth," Lasky writes that J.F.K.'s "military experience included having the PT boat of which he was the skipper rammed and sunk by a much slower Japanese destroyer." A Pulitzer Prize author? "Kennedy had considerable help." Even Kennedy's use of naval power to pressure Khrushchev to withdraw his missiles from Cuba was, to Lasky, merely a ploy for domestic political advantage, since "among other things, Kennedy was able to accomplish the political destruction of his former rival, Richard M. Nixon, in California...
...last came the break that the Justice Department was waiting for. Word got out late one night that Wallace would withdraw his state police and replace them with contingents of the National Guard. Early the next morning, President Kennedy signed a proclamation that federalized the guard. On his orders, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara simply retired the guardsmen to their armories. Wallace, shorn of his troops, gave up with a whimper. "I can't fight bayonets with my bare hands," he cried, ignoring the fact that there had not been a federal bayonet to be seen anywhere...