Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...racial antagonism against the Malays. Recent Communist-organized harassments have included bloody race rioting on the offshore island of Penang. The Communists are not strong enough to contemplate open insurrection now, but the Malaysian government fears that they are preparing to make a bid for power when British troops withdraw from Malaysia in 1971 as part of their pull-out east of Suez...
...implanted in their arms, with the ends exposed for hooking up to the machine. Avram uses instead a technique of joining an artery and vein inside the forearm, which causes the veins to enlarge. For each treatment, one needle is inserted near the site of this internal shunt to withdraw blood, and another higher up to return it. Thanks to this refinement, two Brooklyn patients are working as longshoremen, with little added risk of infection. Another is a garage mechanic...
...only hope for America and the world is in the new idealism and the new realism of the young people of America and Europe; the only hope is that youth think that it is worth doing something for humanity: if it were not for that, I would withdraw from the human race or at least from civilization
Electric Boy. The greatest effort is made with the Orthogenic School's autistic children. Thwarted or ignored in early childhood by hostile or indifferent parents, victims of autism (from the Greek word for self) sense during infancy that their own actions cannot shape their lives. Consequently, they withdraw into a living-death fantasy existence characterized by fear and stony silence-or, at best, by unintelligible animal noises. Unwilling to admit their own existence because they fear that the outside world will destroy them, many autistics refuse to use the pronoun "I" if and when they do speak...
...marriage. Then, in 1965, a family squabble took longer than usual to simmer down. While still angry, Mrs. Cotner decided to get back at her husband by filing a sodomy charge against him. But before the case came to court, Mrs. Cotner changed her mind and tried to withdraw her complaint. She was too late; the state said that it was a criminal matter, and her husband was charged with having had anal intercourse with her. Cotner refused a lawyer, pleaded guilty and threw himself on the mercy of the court-his wife, after all, had not accused...