Word: withdraws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months passed with no action, despite intercession by two U.S. Senators. Eleven months later-six weeks after the Chicago appointment was to begin, Polyani was forced to withdraw his acceptance, but was fortunately able to remain at the University of Manchester. Chicago accordingly changed its offer to a temporary chair, and Polyani revised his application to ask for a nonimmigrant or temporary visa...
...McClellan roared in protest. McCarthy talked on, stuck to his question. General Reber sat in silence, gripping the edges of the witness table until his knuckles showed white. Finally, McCarthy, having made his point over radio and television, dismissed the entire question as unimportant, and grandly said he would withdraw...
...that same note, the third day's hearings ended. Said Mundt to Stevens: "May the chair be sure that we understand that you are going to search your mind concerning Mr. Carr and in the morning either particularize the charge or withdraw it against Mr. Carr?" Replied Secretary Stevens, earnestly: "I am certainly going to search my mind and try to do that...
...discourse grew louder, more ill-tempered. Half the ministers were on their feet at once; the several Gaullists and so-called "dissident Gaullists" huddled in a corner to consider whether to withdraw from the Laniel government, which would almost certainly bring it down. Corniglion-Molinier came back to the table and asked for a recess until 5 p.m. so that the matter might be discussed with party leaders. "Not even five minutes!" snapped Bidault. "This text must be signed today, because it must be presented to the House of Commons before it goes on holiday...
...Benedict was the spiritual founder of all monasteries. On the summit of Italy's Monte Cassino, 14 centuries ago, where pagans had raised a shrine to Apollo. Benedict gathered around him a group of fellow Roman Catholics to withdraw from the world and yet be a part of it. He wrote them a rule of useful work and communal worship and solitary contemplation that has been a model of monastic discipline everywhere and ever since...