Word: withdrawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Assad could well afford the gesture. After months of chaos and bloodshed, Syria was in a position to exercise de facto suzerainty over much of Lebanon. In contrast, the Reagan Administration, its Marine contingent withdrawn to the safety of the U.S. flotilla off the shores of Beirut, was reduced to the role of passive spectator...
...clear. Says Biographer Barbara Guest: "She had an assortment of ideas and events that were repetitious; they were thoughts and images that might be embellished by her reading, or actual experiences never to be relinquished." The remark may explain why the poet on the page appears static and obsessively withdrawn, and the aura of the poet-priestess seems theatrical and self-indulgent. Excerpts from her letters are forgettable; she has little to say about other writers, and does not appear to have seriously concerned herself with the social and political events of her exciting times. World War II found...
...brain hemorrhage; in Vienna. Mother Pasqualina met Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli in 1918 when he was papal nuncio in Munich, moved with him to the Vatican and, after he was elected Pope in 1939, became the channel through which outsiders had to pass to gain access to the ascetic, withdrawn Pontiff...
...president of Boston College has withdrawn his reprimand to a BC professor for writing an open letter to the BC student paper. The professor's lettter criticized the growing emphasis on "Big Money" athletic at the college...
...reprimand was withdrawn last week after the professor apologized in a written letter to the paper...