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Word: withdrawing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Religious instruction in state schools with parental option to withdraw children from religious classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Thunderer over the Schools | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...Pressures. But the Allies could not accept the last of these points. The war had reached a stage where Italy could not withdraw, could not be neutral. If she were not on the German side, she had to take the Allied side. For Italy had become a vital breach in Festung Europa, an avenue to, and a rampart of, the inner citadel of Germany. The Anglo-American and the German military machines were squeezing her hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: State of Revolution | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

Dispensers of Death. Revenge, and how they got it, is Author Wolfert's story. Not that the men of Torpedo 8 were romantically vengeful: they were "astonishingly practical, very realistic and hardheaded." When asked to volunteer for near-suicide missions, they and their fellow airmen would withdraw to ponder upon the matter. They volunteered "only when, independently of their officers, they decide [d] the possible gain [was] worth the probable loss." They knew that launching torpedoes from the bellies of their fat little craft meant "going in fast and low and drawing their planes across the mouths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vivid Violence | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...inflation plagued all India. Its Pakistan program, in practice, might well mean the economic suicide of the provinces involved. It is axiomatic in India that "Hindu and Moslem interests can no more be separated than you can unscramble eggs." Nevertheless, Jinnah at last dominated the areas he threatened to withdraw from the rest of India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Rose Petals & Scrambled Eggs | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...Allies waited vainly for Finland to show some signs of intent or willingness to withdraw from Hitler's fold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Nothing Worse to Fear | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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