Word: withdrawal
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...others, three were required to withdraw for at least one year, two were sent to University psychiatrists, and the rest were placed on probation, most for the remainder of the academic year. Two of the three suspended students have since been drafted, according to Dean Watson...
...death of this whining and whimpering from the Prime Minister." When Wilson claimed to have answered a question that he really had not, Tory Chairman Anthony Barber exclaimed: "That confirms the suspicion of the whole country that the right honorable gentleman is a twister." The Speaker asked Barber to withdraw the remark. Some of the harshest criticism was leveled at Wilson by the former head of the Bank of England, Lord Cromer. Unlike Britain's two previous devaluations in 1931 and 1949, he said, "this time devaluation was the outcome solely of the government's policies...
...five-man faculty committee on recruiting recommended the prohibition as a response to Selective Service director Lewis B. Hershey's request that draft boards withdraw 2-S deferments from students who obstruct military recruiters...
...that he had not been saying for months. The Arabs were willing to recognize Israel's right to exist, but not necessarily to recognize Israel. They wanted a "just and lasting peace" but not a formal peace treaty. And before any settlement could even be considered, Israel must withdraw its troops from occupied Arab lands. At one point, the King even seemed to harden the Arab line: before the Arabs accepted Israel as a peaceful neighbor, he told his Georgetown audience, the land would have to be "de-Zionized"-renounce its status as a Jewish state...
Distressing as the realization may be, according to the precepts of liberal politics by which we have organized our communal lives for more than two centuries, we are all complicitous unless we actively withdraw our consent from society, or deny ourselves its protections--of which the 2S deferment is the first to come to mind. Regrettably or not, very few of us have done that; this exposes as a gross version of cowardice (and as untoward naivete) our arrogant projection of dissident heroism onto the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Nor are fishing expeditions into University investments or sources...