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Word: departing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unable through diplomacy to put our weight behind realization of a coalition government, democratic in spirit and action, it would seem better for us and for China that we fold our tents and quietly depart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 8, 1946 | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...18th Century death seemed "selfconscious . . . with . . . eyes less on God than on the bystanders." When the priest rose to leave Mme. Pompadour's bedside, she stopped him. "One moment, M. le Curé," she said, "and we will depart together." Cracked Voltaire, when a lamp flared in his death chamber: "The flames? Already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: De Mortuis | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...came for; but they got bored waiting, and requested the management to announce the precise hour of the spécialité. The management obligingly posted a timetable over the bar in the lobby; habitués would drink till the big moment, dash in for it, and then depart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Paris in the Spring | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...order: "About face!" The parade, in Sheriff Morrow's eye, ceased to be lawful. Mounted police turned their horses toward the marchers. Out of a police loudspeaker boomed Morrow's voice. He was reading Pennsylvania's 95-year-old Riot Act-"Disperse yourselves and peaceably depart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Riot Act | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...Iran, last week were three foreign armies - Russians in the north, British and Americans in the south. All were there by agreement; all by agreement should leave not later than next March 2. The U.S. contingent of nearly 4,000 men, smallest of the three, was preparing to depart by the end of the year. The other two would stay until due date, presumably to buttress their Government's diplomacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Rhythm Recurs | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

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