Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise with a question. Fraser retorted that Cadogan had checked the transcript of the answer with him. Snapped Fraser to Webster: "Don't try to slide out by making misstatements. What you are doing is dishonest." U.S. Senator Tom Connally, who was presiding, got Fraser to withdraw the "dishonest...
...From Trieste, three weeks ago the hottest spot of all, Marshal Tito agreed to withdraw his troops, provided his action did not prejudice Yugoslavia's case against Italian control of the strategic Adriatic port...
Japan's war lords were forced to tip their hand last week. Faced by hard military realities, they revealed one of the major strategic decisions of World War II: to cut their losses in "Greater East Asia" and withdraw into a kind of Asiatic inner fortress, there to concentrate their strength against the blows which they knew would soon fall. Thus, in effect, they confessed the bankruptcy of the imperial venture they had launched three and a half years ago at Pearl Harbor...
...church membership and that the Lord's Supper, although termed 'a sacrament,' is a symbol whose beauty is not always expedient. . . . The New Testament, the Creed and the agelong practice of the church do not concur with Mr. Rockefeller's evaluation. . . . The church [should] withdraw from the Federal Council, if the Council maintains and does not repudiate its seeming approval...
Puzzled citizens began to wonder if the curfew were being eased out of existence, were still a little puzzled after another Byrnes announcement: "The government does not intend to withdraw its request for a midnight curfew...