Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recalled. "But you can't just say, Til give you a blank check' when there's a pistol at your head. All you can say is that 'we'll do what's right.' " The principle established and the pistol withdrawn, Johnson agreed two weeks ago to renegotiate the Panama Canal Treaty, announced that the U.S. would eventually build a sea-level canal somewhere in Central America or Colombia...
...whining impatiently. They took off in a hail of mercifully inaccurate rebel fire. Aboard one of the planes flew Mrs. Angeline Tucker and her three children. She had not seen her husband die. After that, to the disgust of U.S. and Belgian officials on the scene, the paratroopers were withdrawn, presumably in deference to "world opinion," even though an estimated 1,100 whites were still in rebel-held territory...
...pretty little computer in frocks and saddle shoes, Julie was shy and withdrawn. "That is the reason," she analyzes, "why most girls become actresses. The thing that turns them into a star is the need to be loved and accepted. Approbation to me means more than anything." By the time she was 16, she was getting approbation all over the place, even on a trip to Spain, where a matador spotted her in the stands and gave her both ears of his most recently vanquished bull. Outside the plaza de toros, her mother threw the ears in the gutter...
...travel agent reappears with irreverent celerity. He draws the widow's hand toward him across the kitchen table, suddenly bends to kiss it, just as suddenly discovers the hand withdrawn and his lips pressed tenderly to a table mat. The next frame, however, finds them bouncing around on her bed, and for the next 80 minutes they hardly ever leave it-except to hurry over and bounce around on his bed. Sometimes they bounce all over the floor. Sometimes they bounce blindfolded. Once they land somehow in a large wooden chest . . . and discreetly lower...
These motions, first in a series of six which the Faculty will debate, were introduced by Paul M. Doty, chairman of the Special Committee to Review General Education, after he had withdrawn his motion for blanket approval of his Committee's report...