Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists fired 40,000 rounds, went into a daily average of 10,000 rounds per day for five days, again held back airpower. On Aug. 29 the Communists kicked off their propaganda onslaught by warning the free world that landing is imminent," warned the Quemoy garrison "to withdraw." Then, two days later, the Communists made a big-and unanticipated-move to scare the U.S. out of involvement in Quemoy. The Kremlin warned the U.S. that the U.S.S.R. intended to give Red China "necessary moral and material aid in the just struggle for the liberation of Formosa" and that "any aggression...
Mills' specific suggestions to alleviate the thrust towards World War III, while eminently worthwhile, are less dramatic than his original thesis. He thinks that the United States should withdraw from all overseas bases, cease production and testing of nuclear weapons, encourage European disarmament, relax restrictions on scientific work, prohibit arms shipments to the Middle East, establish greater cultural exchange with Russia, provide a trained civil service, and reestablish civilian control over the military. However, the more important of Mills' recommendations are made less meaningful by his inclusion of seemingly trivial suggestions such as the foundation of a fleet of airlines...
...magnate, and the first commoner in at least 15 centuries to be betrothed to the heir to the Japanese throne, had come with her parents to pay a ceremonial call on the young prince. After the usual formalities, the prince's tutor delicately suggested that the older generation withdraw to the garden. Gaily the prince seized Michiko's hand and led her on an inspection tour of the palace. For the first time since they met on a tennis court 15 months ago, Crown Prince Akihito and his fiancée found themselves alone...
...skier is not alone in his anxiety; there are others of the athletically inclined who share his fear and trembling. At any moment the University may turn against their sport, withdraw its funds, demote its standing. And to an ever increasing extent, this is happening...
...agents. Unionists charge that the law has had other bad effects. Jerry Holleman, head of the Texas A.F.L.-C.I.O., says the law has weakened union discipline, causing more wildcat strikes, and that the union must take many more grievance cases, often trivial ones, to arbitration lest the union members withdraw from the local on grounds that they are not being ably represented...