Word: withdrawnness
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...strike notices filed with the board (726 by A.F. of L., 156 by C.I.O., 201 by unaffiliated unions, six by individuals), 688 were withdrawn, 232 led to strike votes, the rest were settled otherwise. Of the strike votes, only 64 resulted in strikes...
...with the inclusion of democratic leaders from Poland itself and from Poles abroad," by agreeing to a free Polish election supervised by Russia's Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov and the U.S. and British ambassadors to Moscow, the U.S. and Britain had in effect recognized the Warsaw Government and withdrawn recognition from the Polish Government which was closest to the one Britain had gone...
...suddenly, after a hurry-up Stettinius visit to the White House, the offer was withdrawn. Cohen's friends had their own explanation: Harry Hopkins had cast the blackball. Incensed, Ben Cohen resigned from Government service, was persuaded to stay only after an hour's conference with Franklin Roosevelt himself...
...Siegfried Line they were spread thin and were spending materiel almost as fast as it reached the front. Now our reserves of men, arms and transport must come thousands of miles from an America that is fighting another war in the Pacific. Germany, on the other hand, has withdrawn almost to her own frontiers and can switch reserves from one front to another with comparative speed...
Another Gamble. As the year drew to a close, the Germans found their border invaded and themselves in a position where they, in turn, preferred a great gamble to a continued, steady, losing retreat. Adolf Hitler had withdrawn into the shadows and Heinrich Himmler was Germany's Man of 1944. Himmler had held the people and the Army in line while he squeezed them for the last ounces of German strength. Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, the cold, wily Junker who mounted the December counteroffensive, was the Man of the Hour...