Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These students were reserved and withdrawn for the first few weeks. "I was almost ashamed to talk to anyone there," the same boy said. "It would have been an admission that I was one of them." "I was too wrapped up in myself, too full of self-pity to realize that there were other people around," another said...
...Nayler, last year's sophomore star at 130, was hit by knee and groin injuries early in the season, became dispirited, and has withdrawn from the team. Howie Freedman, undefeated last year at 177 and 191, contracted mononucleosis soon after Christmas and was lost for the season...
...chauffeured each morning from his spacious Moscow apartment to the Defense Ministry in Arbatskaya Square. Gorshkov seldom entertains and rarely appears at diplomatic functions. Married, he often spends weekends with his wife at their government-supplied dacha near Moscow. Like most high-ranking Soviet officers, he is withdrawn even from his personal staff, spent most of the time that he was not traveling about in India alone in his bedroom...
...Commission presented its recommendations a month ago, after more than four years of study. (Pearson's successor will decide on their implementation..) The climax of the Sixty Days came when Pearson's Finance Minister, Walter Gordon, presented a budget so unworkable and confused that its main features were eventually withdrawn altogether...
...assignment-at first remained silent in hopes of avoiding an embarrassing scandal. Later, his conviction that Arnheiter's relief would sap the authority of every commanding officer overrode his concern for protocol; he openly demanded reconsideration of the Arnheiter case by Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius. "To have withdrawn my support from Arnheiter was prudent," he wrote to the Secretary, "but to turn against him was pusillanimous...