Word: withdrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When these demands were refused by Albania, the note continued, the Jugoslav Government last week withdrew its Legation from Albania and gave the Albanian Minister in Belgrade just 24 hours to leave the country...
Wendell Phillips' phrase, about John Brown having "letters of marque from God," accurately describes the religious zealot who conducted midnight reprisals of lives and livestock against the proponents of slavery in "Bloody Kansas" and who, in 1858, withdrew to Canada to formulate a design as unusual as it was drastic...
...when the Taggart man was the late Thomas R. Marshall. In 1920, Mr. Marshall failed to repeat, but in 1924 it looked much as though Boss Taggart had engineered successfully? until the late Senator Samuel M. Ralston (a perfunctory Taggart man that year) withdrew his name...
...have ravished my eyes, and, as I read them aloud, my ears and my whole being fell likewise under their spell." Soon, with a flourish, Signor Mussolini presented the Countess Bethlen with an Italian translation of one of her poems autographed by himself. Flushed and a little flabbergasted, she withdrew. Premier Count Bethlen remained with Il Duce, and the two statesmen got down to signing their treaty...
During the week Liberal troops took Jinotega (near Matagalpa) from Conservative forces which quietly withdrew without offering battle...