Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cool Chiding. Even so, the revised note charged that De Gaulle had acted illegally in breaking his military treaty commitments to NATO, and that he was wrong in saying the NATO structure would be impossible to amend. Moreover, said the U.S., if French troops are withdrawn from NATO command on July 1 as planned, they will lose access to the U.S.-owned nuclear warheads in West Germany, which France now shares under the "two-key" system. The U.S. insisted not only that it will need at least two years to remove its troops but that NATO will need an equal...
Back in Beira the Ioanna V, which had switched from Greek to Panamanian registration in mid-voyage, was boarded by the Panamanian consul, who informed the captain that the ship's Panamanian registration had been withdrawn, leaving the Ioanna V a ship without a country. Later, the Beira port captain placed the tanker and its 18,000 tons of oil under Portuguese control, which could mean that either Portugal was honoring the embargo by impounding the ship or simply making it easier to unload the oil. Whichever the case, the British intend to see to it that the Ioanna...
...articles in his English ("I had best steak of my life in Cleveland airport"); now he speaks it fluently. He has recently gone out of his way to make a second career as a duo pianist, sharing the billing with St. Louisian Malcolm Frager. And though still wryly withdrawn, he has lately come to admit that he likes Americans in general: "The applause is so nice; American audiences are so very, very warm...
Remarks like this are always startling when you're used to hearing delicate technical circumlocutions from poets, discussions of style at the expense of content. We have very thoroughly withdrawn from the theory of messages, Berryman no less than most; but the man is fully as anxious to see people grasp what the poem is about as he is to alarm and confuse them with unusual language. He began writing, he says, "as a burning trivial disciple of the great Irish poet William Butler Yeats," but Yeats "could not teach me to sound like myself (whatever that was) or tell...
...July 1 of this year, the 23,000 French troops and two tactical air squadrons based in West Germany will be withdrawn from joint commands. Whether they physically remain on German soil will depend, says De Gaulle, on bilateral arrangements with Bonn...