Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which he holds his nose and they sneer. Once they took singing lessons, but apoplectic Manager Levy stopped that, pronto, for fear they would be ruined. The sisters have also appeared in four movies, one of which, Argentina Nights, so infuriated Argentine audiences that it had to be withdrawn. The Harvard Lampoon voted this performance the "most frightening" of the year...
Thimbles, Cards and Rope. Psychiatrist Douglas McGlashan Kelley, who is director of the psychopathic ward in San Francisco Hospital, teaches simple tricks to victims .of certain mental diseases. His theory: patients who have withdrawn into themselves from shyness, inferiority complexes or mild schizophrenia (split personality) can become the life of the party if they are taught parlor magic. The tricks they learn, said Dr. Kelley, "require no brains and can't go wrong...
...practice of sporadic injections; once started, treatment must be continued, for in early syphilis a little "may be worse than none." Reason: if no drugs are given, the body proceeds with its strong defenses. When drugs attack the germs, they also weaken the body defenses. If a drug is withdrawn, a patient is left helpless...
...Russians were counterattacking. To make it worse, some of the Luftwaffe on the Moscow front had been withdrawn, partly to support a drive down from Finnish positions to close the last lines of supply into Leningrad. Much Air Force weight had apparently been shifted south, in preparation for a great new effort to take Rostov...
China had just passed through six of the most active weeks since the fall of Hankow in 1938. The Japanese had withdrawn troops from Ichang, lunged at Chinese-held Changsha and seized it, only to be driven out. The Chinese, in turn, had smashed at Japanese-held Ichang and held that city for three days; then they, too, had been driven out. The two campaigns balanced. They proved that the Japanese could not withdraw troops from extended outposts without jeopardizing them, could hold no new positions without reinforcements. They proved that without artillery the Chinese had no hope of putting...