Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unsatisfactory. British troops still stood guard on the streets and rooftops of the Holy Land (though last week the first troops, some 300, were withdrawn). But the U.N. commission was not getting much British cooperation. In a series of messages which emasculated the commission's already feeble powers, Britain had refused...
...British, who put him on his throne, have a firm rein on the impetuous Abdullah. His proud army depends on a yearly British subsidy of $8,000,000, British arms and supplies, and 48 British officers who advise and command it. If British support were withdrawn, Abdullah knows that his Legion would quickly deteriorate into just another ragged Arab band...
...roughest game of the year. Nine penalties, one of them a major, were dished out and there was cause for plenty more, mostly on the visitors. Only in the second period did Harvard's scoring attack bog down, and that frame saw three Crimson cohorts withdrawn due to injuries...
...Vive. At week's end, Somoza was still on the alert. Night & day his airplanes patrolled the sky over Managua, and the tough Guardia had been withdrawn to positions on the hill. Whispered Managuans: "They're coming, they're coming soon." Who? Why, old General Emiliano Chamorro, of course', who at 76 was about to embark on his 17th revolution...
...mental types. He has 48 photographs in all, divided into six sets. Each set of photographs (see cut) contains the face of 1) an epileptic; 2) a manic depressive in a depressed state; 3) a manic depressive in a manic state; 4) a sadist; 5) a catatonic (completely withdrawn) schizophrenic; 6) a paranoid (active, with delusions of persecution) schizophrenic; 7) a homosexual; 8) a hysteric...