Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...link between her and me," the President said. "But they did not succeed." Nevertheless, it is evident that the time in captivity has deeply scarred Duarte Duran. An energetic mother of three, she ably assisted her father in his 1984 presidential campaign. Visitors last week found her hesitant and withdrawn, sometimes clinging to her father in an almost childlike fashion. "Her mood + goes up and down. She is still frightened of everything," said Duarte. On the advice of the psychologist who counseled the family during its 44-day vigil, the President has joined his daughter in therapy sessions...
...quoted in this morning's New York Times [October 14] as saying that some scholars have withdrawn from the Islam and Politics conference for "personal reasons." I hope that I made clear to you in our conversations on Saturday that my own reasons were matters of principle. If I expressed myself more in sorrow than in anger, it was because of my long standing respect for you as a scholar and a person. Although you will not remember it. I first met you 23 years ago at a meeting to protest another operation of the Central Intelligence Agency, the invasion...
Change just keeps grinding away at the Cosmos Club, that 107-year-old Washington institution with the slightly seedy lobby and stately French Renaissance facade. In 1962 the club's rule excluding blacks was dropped, but only after several members resigned and President John F. Kennedy's nomination was withdrawn over the blackballing of Carl Rowan. Now the issue concerns the policy encapsulated by a small gold sign at the base of the club's red-carpeted staircase: MEMBERS AND MALE GUESTS ONLY AT THIS HOUR. Not since its founding in 1878 has the 3,000-member Cosmos included...
Three weeks ago at the national championships in Cincinatti, Harvard edged out Princeton by only 47-hundreths of a second. That victory was followed by an unexpected Princeton protest, later withdrawn, that the champions had lodged their extra weight, required to make up for the weight of the coxswain, under the number five seat instead of within reach of the coxswain, as is customary...
Three weeks ago at the national championships in Cincinatti, Harvard edged out Princeton by only 47-hundreths of a second. That victory was followed by an unexpected Princeton protest, later withdrawn, that the champions had lodged their extra weight, required to make up for the weight of the coxswain, under the number five seat instead of within reach of the coxswain, as is customary...