Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investigating this process, the University of London's Dr. Alan Kekwick and colleagues have found that people on a voluntary starvation regimen produce, somewhere in their bodies, a "fat mobilizing substance" (FMS). The substance speeds and eases the process whereby fat stored in the body can be withdrawn and utilized by the body as energy. Excess FMS is excreted in the urine...
Tenuous order came with dawn, and Stokes, on the advice of black leaders, devised a bold gamble to pacify the troubled area the next night. All white law-enforcement officers, including the National Guardsmen, were withdrawn, and some 100 Negro policemen-nearly all Cleveland has-and 500 Negro civilians, mostly militants, were sent in. Stokes' bet paid off. Rioting stopped and no one was injured, though looting continued. Two nights after the flare-up, Stokes returned the Guard and an integrated police force. The Cleveland Insurance Board estimated damage from both fire and looting at a relatively...
...participation in the political life" of South Viet Nam. 3) Free elections are held, supervised by international observers. The U.S. withdraws completely, leaving only the international force. 4) "Through direct negotiation, the two parts of Viet Nam decide whether to unite or remain separate," and the international force is withdrawn...
...real problems and gradually letting the demand for a bombing halt fade into the background. The U.S., on the other hand, is trying to demonstrate flexibility; it told the North Vietnamese last week that if they stopped trying to force Communism on South Viet Nam, U.S. troops would be withdrawn without question...
...success were the pimp and the hustler, the numbers man and the dope man. Aretha knew what they were all about without having to meet them personally." Her mother deserted the family when Aretha was six and died four years later, two shocks that deeply scarred the shy, withdrawn girl. "After her mama died," says Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson, "the whole family wanted for love...