Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stacking machine) to help the men unload grapes, lemons and Dutch cheese. Observing that the machine enabled one man to do the work of three, the guv'nor laid off 14 men from a team of 21. The strike followed; the dockers returned only when the machine was withdrawn, pending negotiations...
...position by adopting what I may refer to as grasshopper tactics . . . Each leap ends on a blade of grass which turns out to be a flimsy pretext requiring a jump to a new but equally unstable position . . . The long process of proposal and counterproposal, of promises made and withdrawn, made it plain that good faith-that prerequisite to settlement-was absent from the Soviet mind...
...Army Athletic Association, faced with the problem of providing space in Michie Stadium for several thousand Harvard spectators, has apparently acted in haste and with indiscretion. Several hundred of the best seats in the Crimson sections, seats which should have gone to students, alumni, and former "H" men, were withdrawn by West Point Officials for "non-working press and pre-season commitments." It now appears that these tickets have been sold by the Army box office into channels which brought them to New York speculators for public sale...
Last week, after almost doubling its North Korean native army, the Russians made their offer again, this time even more magnanimously. From Moscow, just in time to impress the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, came the announcement that all Soviet troops would be withdrawn from Korea by Jan. 1, whether the U.S. followed suit or not. The action, said the Russians, was taken at the request of the "Supreme National Assembly of Korea" (the puppet government), which hoped that now "the U.S. would agree to withdrawal of its troops...
...idea. Smartly made up (Gitt regularly wins typographical awards for his own paper), it gave six columns to Henry Wallace's politicking, and brushed off the Battle of Berlin as something "fought mainly by the newspapers whose reports scared the daylights out of some Americans." (Gitt has since withdrawn as a sponsor.) It looked as if the Guardian's complexion would be somewhere between pink and rosy...