Word: withdraws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Lawyer Sapiro, in effect: "Because of that I withdraw my litigation...
...presence at Tientsin gave confidence to U. S. citizens in Peking. They still feared, to be sure, that the Peking War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, might withdraw before the Southern armies,, retire to his war base at Mukden, and abandon Peking to its conquerors; but with General Butler at hand, together with British, Japanese and French marine detachments, the safety of Occidentals in Peking seemed secure...
...Tsar" of Philadelphia (TIME, Jan. 4, 1926). When the President would not extend his leave to go on with that job, General Butler resigned from the Marine Corps, only to lose immediately his post as "Dry Tsar." Nothing but the complacency of the Navy Department enabled General Butler to withdraw his resignation and scuttle back into the Corps. Yet now it is General Butler who commands all U. S. marines in China...
...scene which, fortunately, never actually took place. In their minds' eyes they saw a Prohibition officer tracking down a suspicious-looking individual whose coat-pocket bulged with a telltale protuberance. They saw him clap hand on this individual's shoulder, reach into the bulging pocket and withdraw a bottle containing whiskey. And they saw the arrested individual turn upon his captor the face of Ed Jackson, Governor of Indiana...
Laborite Beckett: "I won't withdraw it! I can only say that he [pointing at the Premier] has told lies." (Upon a motion from Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill the House voted to expel Laborite Beckett for five days...