Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cleveland and Columbus, crestfallen Glenn supporters shuttered their offices, and in Akron they refunded $20,000 worth of tickets to a $100-a-plate Glenn dinner. A few refused to give up, despite Glenn's insistence that "I am not playing games; I have withdrawn." Meeting in Columbus, a score of Glenn men decided to continue campaigning for him, since his decision to pull out came too late for his name to be removed from the ballot. "He's a guy who's gonna get better," said John...
...liberal to be members of the Johnson fan club, badly wanted two vacancies that had occurred on the Judiciary Committee. Both had applied for the places in writing. When the committee-assigning Democratic steering committee met, however, Baker appeared before it and announced that Burdick and Young had withdrawn their requests. No one questioned his word, and the seats were given to Missouri's Edward Long and Texas' William Blakley, both Johnson enthusiasts. As it turned out, neither Burdick nor Young had agreed to withdraw...
...women and children already there will be withdrawn by normal rotation. By early 1966, Gitmo will be in a class with such bleak outstations as Thule and Antarctica-a "hardship post," with tours of duty reduced from two years...
...from being the only Republicans in the presidential news. Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton, who until a recent talk with Ike really sounded as though he wanted no part of the White House, now let it be known that he would not request that his name be withdrawn from the Oregon primary if it were entered. Michigan's Governor George Romney still maintained that "I will not be a candidate for the nomination, and I will not seek it." But he scheduled a series of out-of-state speeches and television appearances for the next few weeks...
...prevent his own tiu lien (loss of face), he told his trusting customers that he had known of the Hong Kong failure and had withdrawn their funds in time. Then he set up a phony account in his Chinatown bank, juggled his books, which were kept in Chinese characters, so as to pay back anyone who demanded cash from Hong Kong...