Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fought in front of his men, was thrice wounded, ten times decorated (e.g., D.S.C., British D.S.O., French Croix de Guerre, Russian Order of Kutuzou), became a figure of legend to U.S. foot soldiers. Thrice he refused new commands. But finally, last summer, his Rangers were withdrawn from combat-of 1,500 original members of three battalions, only 199 were still alive...
...prayers and with tears. It was the same on Sunday morning in the gentle landscape at Hyde Park, when the burial service of the Episcopal Church spoke its old, strong, quiet words of farewell; and it was the same at that later moment when all save the gravemen were withdrawn and reporters, in awe-felt hiding, saw how a brave woman, a widow, returned, and watched over the grave alone, until the grave was filled...
...Senate rejected the nomination of William S. Boyle to be U.S. Attorney for Nevada. Later, in the face of certain defeat, nominations of Edward J. Flynn to be U.S. Minister to Australia and James V. Allred to be a judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals were withdrawn...
...with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from Poles abroad," by agreeing to a free Polish election supervised by Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov and the U.S. and British ambassadors to Moscow, the U.S. and Britain had in effect recognized the Warsaw Government and withdrawn recognition from the Polish Government which was closest to the one Britain had gone...
...Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, and the moderate bourgeoisie; 2) the Radical Socialists, the old center party of Edouard Herriot (still a prisoner in Germany), now leaning for strength on the conservative peasantry. Barred from voting were many who once formed France's extreme right. A Government decree had withdrawn the franchise from collaborators...