Word: withdrew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...supply and communication lines to Paris of the Belgians, British and French on the Plain of Flanders, threatened to cut them off from France. One day having fought and held Louvain against Nazi attacks, the British next day turned and retired with their Belgian allies. They also withdrew from Brussels, from Antwerp...
...fishermen and antique churches, was important to Great B/itain since its deep channels are the only ones on the shallow, white-sand Dutch coast suitable for submarine bases. But by week's end this resistance, momentarily bolstered by Prince Bernhard's return, petered out as the Allies withdrew from the islands...
Great Britain withdrew her controls from Weymouth and The Downs partly because of Germany's new proximity in The Netherlands, but chiefly because, when the war reached the Low Countries, the Allies' northern blockade of Germany became practically 100%. The skeleton crew at Kirkwall will look over only the few ships bound for Sweden, Finland, Russia and her Baltic satellites...
...owners of a dozen or more U. S. race horses could have kicked themselves last week. So convinced were they that Colonel Edward Bradley's Bimelech would make their pets look like plugs, all but seven of the country's top-notch turfmen withdrew their entries for the Kentucky Derby the week before the race. Last week, when 95,000 fans crammed into Churchill Downs to watch Big Bim romp off with America's No. 1 horse race, many a rival owner had already phrased his felicitations to Colonel Bradley, too ill to watch his latest...
What Strong Man Batista wants in this election is opposition but not too much opposition. Last March Candidate Batista made a deal with General Mario Garcia Menocal who thereupon withdrew his candidacy. Then the remaining opposition parties got together on Dr. Grau, with the understanding that the vice-presidential nomination should go to the ABC (semi-Fascist) candidate, Joaquin Martinez Saenz, that the Republican Action Party's leader, onetime President Miguel Mariano Gómez, should be the nominee for Mayor of Havana, No. 2 political job on the island. But election laws require that each party nominate...