Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Torres grabbed an M-16 automatic rifle and an M-60 machine gun and began hunting down the hunters. He killed three before dawn broke and the re maining 35 wounded G.I.s could be withdrawn. "I didn't think I'd live to see daylight," Torres said. "But somehow it came." He was recommended for the Silver Star...
...isolated splendor. In Salisbury last week, Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs had plenty of isolation, but it was not altogether splendid. On orders of Prime Minister Ian Smith, all phone lines to Sir Humphrey's official residence were cut. Then, in rapid succession, his armed police guard was withdrawn, his blue-tarbooshed honor guards tossed their bedrolls into a police truck and were driven away, and his butlers, gardeners, cooks and maids disappeared. His chauffeur even drove off with his official Rolls-Royce...
Last spring, the CRIMSON asked that American troops be withdrawn from Vietnam. We felt that a National Liberation Front government was the only possible outcome of the situation in Vietnam. We doubted that leaving Vietnam would seriously affect America's international position. And we believer that only America's intransigence and unwillingness to negotiate was prolonging...
...murdered farm family with the eerie twilight world of the two killers. He limns the small-town Midwest of homemade pies, 4-H meetings and simple pieties. By dramatically re-creating the Clutter family-Father Herbert, who served on the federal Farm Credit Board under Ike; his diffident, withdrawn wife Bonnie; their sturdy teen-age son Kenyon; their engaging teen-age daughter Nancy, the "town darling"-Capote makes clear why a neighbor exclaimed after the murder: "That family represented everything people hereabouts really value and respect, and that such a thing could happen to them-well, it's like...
...best chance ever for self-government to slip away. It may seem inevitable now that home rule will come some day, but it seemed just as inevitable in take the bill away from the District Committee. Just when the petition was within two votes of success, 10 names were withdrawn. Things have a way of disintegrating in Washington...