Word: withdrawe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were to find the burden too much and had to withdraw significantly," Sir Patrick concluded, "the gap would be too great for the United States or any other Western country to fill even if they were willing...
...other hand, Operation Exodus has provided important lessons for the present and the future. For the present, it has demonstrated that busing large numbers of Negro children into white schools does not lead to riots and mass withdrawals. Despite the way they voted, few white parents went so far as to withdraw their children from the schools receiving Negro students...
...white-were asked whether they had any fixed opinion on the case, one blurted: "I have. Not guilty." Amid snickers from white spectators, the state objected that such a remark in open court prejudiced a fair trial; but again a continuance was denied. The state then asked permission to withdraw the case until it was prepared to prosecute...
Whereupon Thagard ordered the attorney general's office to withdraw from the case, directed two local officials, Circuit Solicitor Arthur Gamble Jr. and County Solicitor Carlton Perdue, to handle the prosecution-even though Alabama law clearly empowers the attorney general "to direct the prosecution of any criminal case in any of the courts of this state...
...Fazilka, a farm town south of Lahore, a 100-man Indian company politely asked a band of 1,000 Pakistani marauders to withdraw. At that, claimed the outraged Indians, the Pakistanis opened fire with their rifles. Out numbered 10 to 1, the Indians had no choice but to fight. They killed 59 Paks, while losing only eleven men themselves...