Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this time Earl was sure he had it in the bag. He even demanded that Jones withdraw. "It's a sin and a shame," he croaked, "to waste $600,000 of old-age pension money on a second primary. . . . The people have spoken. Jones will never win this time...
Quick rebuttal came from the Swiss in reply to a Chicago dispatch saying that the U. S. Olympic Committee had voted 66 to 6 to withdraw all American entries from the Games if the AHA team was allowed to compete...
Joint Bondage. Jane Gellson did not withdraw into herself; she lived by the usual patterns of society. As a result, she was sucked into increasingly impossible situations. A sensitive young man, Bernard Meddow, fell in love with her, attached himself to her like a pathetic puppy, and all she could offer him was a mild pity. For how could she tell this conventional young Englishman that she was already secretly married to a German whose whereabouts were unknown? Meddow, Jane and her husband all suffered because of the inevitable hurts of human dependence; each was an innocent victim...
...wounded 100. At sunrise one morning, on the Mount of Olives, the Jews of Jerusalem buried their own dead of the last week's fighting, while British soldiers stood guard against Arab snipers. The living, among both Jews and Arabs, prepared for full-fledged war after the British withdraw...
...pickets (many from the University of British Columbia), led by avowed Communists, paraded past the pier with signs reading: "Students say no arms to Fascists," and "Load bread, not bullets, on the Colima." Anti-Communist labor leaders in Vancouver and Ottawa forced the meddlesome Reds to back down and withdraw their pickets. But the Colima had overrun her charter date for loading the cargo, and Chinese officials had to seek another ship to carry it. At week's end, the cargoes were still waiting at the piers in both Halifax and Vancouver...