Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month the Supreme Electoral Tribunal upset the coalition cart by ruling that electors must vote for the nominee of their party. Thus the rebellious Liberal wing could not join the Gomez coalition and foxy old Menocal would probably win. With the coalition threatening to withdraw from the election if the ruling stood, and the Menocalistas threatening to withdraw if the ruling was disregarded, President Mendieta again postponed the election, called in Dr. Dodds...
...certainly unfair, biased, prejudiced, mean, underhanded. Consequently, when I am about to rush you a cancellation of my subscription I am brought to a pause by the discovery that you agree with me on so many points, and are consequently fair and unbiased, that I make haste to withdraw my cancellation. Let some of your correspondents recall that applesauce goes well with roast pork...
...presented the lackey as witty, resourceful, strong. For the first time, a member of the lower class was pictured as a hero on the formal Paris stage. Inconsistently, the bored nobles demanded the presentation of a play which ridiculed them and delighted the masses, forced Louis to withdraw...
...sure that Helene Mayer, German-Jewish Olympic fencing star in 1932, would be asked to join the German team next year. Even before the Normandie docked, Mr. Sherrill was handed a letter from the U. S. Committee on Fair Play in Sports, asking him to support the move to withdraw the U. S. from the 1936 Olympics. The blast that Sportsman Sherrill uttered in reply promptly turned the flame into a thoroughgoing conflagration. Said...
...Paris, a Frenchman was accused of biting an Englishman. In 1928, in Amsterdam, the French refused to march in the opening parade, England withdrew its football team, and referees' decisions aroused even more dissension than usual. The 1932 games in Los Angeles were relatively amiable. Finland threatened to withdraw when Paavo Nurmi was declared a professional. Italy and Japan are currently bickering about whether the 1940 Olympics should be held in Rome or Tokyo...