Word: withdrawals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fire raged, members of the minster staff worked together in the burning building to salvage tapestries, candlesticks, altar crosses and whole pews. Eventually the smoke and heat forced them to withdraw, and the south transept's entire roof "collapsed like a pack of dominoes," in the words of one clergyman. After three hours, firemen managed to bring the blaze under control. They also succeeded in preventing the fire from spreading through the rest of the church. As daylight crept into the now roofless transept, the full scope of the tragedy became apparent: littered with six-foot-high piles...
Those were the only delegates he was to earn; he honored a pledge to withdraw if he did not finish first or second, and brought his campaign to an end. Carter gained his delegate spot in Cambridge--where McGovern won a majority--because of his post as McGovern's state youth coordinator...
Although army bases have been fortified and new roads built in recent weeks, the Shamir government would like to withdraw from southern Lebanon. What keeps the Israelis there is the absence of a central authority able to guarantee that P.L.O. fighters will...
...influence completely waned: when Deputy Prime Minister David Levy considered challenging Yitzhak Shamir for the Herut Party nomination, Begin's son called Levy, presumably at his father's request, and urged him to withdraw. Levy did. The master politician may have given up his job, but not his touch...
...extreme closeup, as in Argentine Publisher Jacobo Timerman's chilling book Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, blood is blood and terror is terror. Withdraw to the appropriate distance, however, and the spectacle of a society obstinately destroying itself becomes a depersonalized, absurd comedy. The author, an Argentine now living in Mexico, withdraws all the way to Olympus. There Athena and Aphrodite, no less, concern themselves with protecting the hapless members of an apolitical poetry group that meets each week in Buenos Aires. They have been denounced to the police, and a surveillance has been mounted...