Word: withdrew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...department did win). Chief supporter of the unity maneuver is Defferre's noted fellow Socialist, ex-Premier Guy Mollet, who for years rigorously attacked the Reds as being "not left, but East," then did a significant turnabout in the same parliamentary elections. Local Red candidates in his constituency withdrew in Mollet's favor, and Mollet for his part obligingly called for a "public dialogue" between Socialists and Communists...
Peking last week publicly admitted that Red China will not have its long-promised nuclear bomb for a long time to come. Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi conceded that economic troubles and the quarrel with the Russians (who withdrew their technicians and broke an atomic-aid treaty) have seriously delayed Peking's atomic program. It would be "several years," Chen told visiting Japanese correspondents, before the regime could even test a crude atom bomb...
After Libonati withdrew his motion, West Virginia Republican Arch Moore moved that the full committee then and there approve the subcommittee bill. This was the one move that Celler and McCulloch feared more than anything else: if Moore's motion had passed, the bill would have gone to Judge Smith's Rules Committee, and subsequent death. Before they could vote, the noon bell rang to convene the House, and the committee had to adjourn. Later Celler canceled committee sessions until at least this week...
...expert administrator under pressure from one minority over one issue. The board majority, which had hoped to make Willis compromise on Negro demands but never intended to lose him, recognized that it was out on a limb and refused his resignation. After a week of reconsidering, Superintendent Willis withdrew...
...when Governor Stevenson announced the nomination was open, I looked at Albert and discovered I had missed one and it already had bitten him." On the first ballot Gore, with 178 votes, trailed Fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver and hopeful Jack Kennedy; on the second he saw the handwriting, withdrew, and supported Kefauver, who won. Again in 1960 Gore thought he had a chance, was disappointed when Kennedy picked Lyndon Johnson...