Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visitors outhit Portsmouth, 7 to 6, and forced Giglio, the navy starting pitcher, to withdraw in the fourth, but the Stahlmen just couldn't connect in the pinches, and their five errors provided all but one of the Portsmouth six runs. Hunter's adequate relief job gave him credit for the victory...
Some of Ankara's rumors concerned Turkey's neighbor, Bulgaria. It was whispered that Sofia had asked Hitler to withdraw his two German divisions from Bulgaria, had hinted that it was time to make peace with the Allies. There was one report that Bulgaria and Turkey were discussing how to avoid hostilities, another to the effect that Turkey was planning to invade Bulgaria. Well might the Bulgarians worry. If the Turks were entering the war to fight, Bulgaria might become a Balkan battleground as Turkish armies attempted to smash their way up in the rear of groggy Rumania...
...gross errors of German strategy. Seven or eight days before the beginning of the Russian offensive the commander of the Group of Armies, Field Marshal Ernst Busch, arrived at my headquarters and heard my report regarding the disadvantage of my overextended position and my request for permission to withdraw in order to shorten the line...
...simply blasted the Japs to hell out of there and up into the trees." But it was not as simple as that. The Japs, estimated variously at 10,000 to 20,000, had three times as great an area (225 sq. mi.) as on Saipan into which to withdraw, to fight like cornered beasts in ravines and caves until destroyed to the last...
...nation may withdraw at any time -resignation becoming effective on the day it is received at the head office of the Bank or Fund...