Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When told that Cole is head of the Conservatives, Butcher said, "Our executive committee will check Cole's attempts to neutralize our group. We did not realize what he was doing." Butcher added that the Fellowship's executive committee would table Cole's resolution to withdraw the group from active participation against war. Cole told the group such pacifist views were illegal under the Selective Service...
...Segura's return from Rome last week, only his family and friends met him at the airport. Spaniards believe that he may soon withdraw from his Seville post...
...Sciences carries only 50 men in the next position in the faculty hierarchy, the instructor post. The same authorities pick the men, but the Corporation must approve the choice since this is a full-time job. It amounts to three consecutive one-year appointments, but the instructor again may withdraw if he wishes...
When the mistake was discovered, the first of its kind on record, Kerr-McGee tried to get all bids thrown out. Failing in this, it asked to withdraw its own and get back its $3,000,000. Last week Interior turned the case over to the General Accounting Office for a ruling. But there was a good chance that Kerr-McGee would have to pay the $15 million for the leases it did not want...
...other is beginning to show that he has inherited some of Grandma's tyranny. Both are attracted to the same lusty Italian opera singer, and when she bears a child, neither brother knows which is the father, and the girl can't tell. Bit by bit, they withdraw to a life of bitterness, become the butts of neighborhood hoodlums, booby-trap the house and retire to an existence of unwashed queerness. When the police finally break into the house, the stench is pretty bad. Novels like this one, which draw on the pap of fact and melodrama...