Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lives just wasted! Not a cheering prospect for us, nor for our comrades, the soldiers and sailors. Mightn't be a bad idea to celebrate Germany's end, when it comes, not by getting drunk but by getting hep to the fact that Japan can and may withdraw to China and hold out there for years unless we stay tough-minded, clear-eyed and in there punching...
Margaret also had a little chat with Emily's bank manager. She put him in a tizzy by hinting that Emily was not quite normal these days and might try to withdraw her fat bank account. So when Emily -who was growing frightened-phoned the manager to say she wanted to change her will, the manager just said soothingly that he'd drop around some time. But he did not appear. Upstairs, Margaret was filing the top off the ampoule of adrenalin...
...likeliest commander for naval forces to cover MacArthur's return to the Philippines. The groundwork for this leapfrog move, had already been prepared. Incessant pressure by Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Far Eastern Air Forces, said MacArthur this week, had apparently forced the enemy to withdraw his air forces westward from the Molucca Islands* to bases beyond Allied bomber range...
...Nazis] intend to turn their hard-learned lessons against the Allies in the hope that eventually the Allied Governments will get so sick of it they will withdraw their occupying forces, leaving Germany once more to what is left of the Nazis. . . . It is not a pretty prospect, this war without end the Nazis are planning...
Their decline began with the election of President Hayes, which, Gideon heard, involved a deal to withdraw the troops from South Carolina and Louisiana. Knowing it was too soon, Gideon appealed to the incumbent Grant. Denied, he returned to Carwell to wait in despair...