Word: withdrawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laboring under these handicaps, the scientist is prone to fall into three errors with reference to public affairs. He may, like the medieval anchorite, withdraw from society by living in the cell which is his laboratory. Or, emerging from his cell, with its austere discipline and chaste aspirations, he will be profoundly shocked to see the way his own truth and power are prostituted to ends with which he cannot become reconciled. He will then do like all pietists before him: propose simple solutions to complex problems, see all issues naively and out of context, and make absolute moral judgments...
Holiday Freedom. Only 24 hours after the confidence vote, the Independents were at Gaillard's throat again. "Tell us exactly what you have agreed to on Tunisia, or we will withdraw our ministers," they demanded. Independent Leader Antoine Pinay came flying back to Paris from a meeting of the European Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg to quell his cohorts. But the trump card was played by Gaillard himself. Said he: "If any part of my majority leaves my side, I will resign...
...timing of press releases, which in the case of a spring-training automobile accident involving Duke Snider and two teammates were held up to favor Western dailies' later deadlines. The Associated Press was so miffed at how the Dodger management broke the accident story that it threatened to withdraw its correspondent, who, as Red Smith pointed out, serves papers in California as well as New York...
Felix Gaillard. By week's end the two "good officers" had brought France and Tunisia closer to an agreement than at any time since the bombing of Sakiet. Despite his loud public defiance of Tunisian demands, Gaillard had agreed in private to withdraw all French forces in Tunisia to the naval base of Bizerte, even to discuss the future status of Bizerte itself. The chief remaining sticking point was Tunisian insistence that any settlement must be accompanied by a general discussion of the Algerian war. The French, still clinging to the notion that Algeria is a purely domestic problem...
...whatever chance remained of free presidential elections on June 1. Though the government stubbornly pressed preparations for the balloting, the only major opposition candidate, ex-President Ramón Grau San Martin, 70, warned that suppression of free speech and assembly made campaigning impossible. There were indications he might withdraw...