Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he got back to the White House was to call for an estimate of the number of Americans who might die in an atomic war; it was 70 million. Kennedy and those close to him felt that war was a very real possibility. The President became moody, withdrawn, often fell into deep thought in the midst of festive occasions with family and friends. He sat up late in the White House and talked about war. To one intimate associate he said: "It really doesn't matter as far as you and I are concerned. What really matters...
...come to the aid of the Republican Party in Colorado. Convinced that the G.O.P. would have carried the Colorado house of representatives last year "if one candidate hadn't shot himself up in a hunting accident and if [Rocky Ford Candidate] Anne Thompson hadn't withdrawn at the last minute when she found she was to become a mother," go-getting State Republican Chairman Jean K. Tool, 41, proclaimed his intention to extract from all future candidates a pledge "to give up hunting during the campaign and to refrain from activities that might lead to pregnancy...
...skull eyes for windows-her chief subject is the individual caught in a moment of pain, passion or loneliness. In her Old Folks Home, which was inspired by a nursing home her 81-year-old father was once in, the old couples sit close together, but each person has withdrawn into a world of his own until the whole scene seems suffocated in silence. Her Kleptomaniac, which could so easily have turned out to be mere sentimentality, was inspired by something that happened when she was working years before in Woolworth's. A prim old lady was caught...
...York Times's Henry Tanner was also served with an expulsion notice, which was later withdrawn...
...Dominican Republic, claimed that the whole maneuver was merely designed to set a precedent for action against him. He sent delegates to the U.N. Security Council and the Organization of American States to denounce the U.S. intervention and demand that the U.S. forces be withdrawn. At the Security Council he won the approval of Russia's Valerian Zorin but only eloquent silence from Security Council members Ecuador and Chile. At the OAS, no other Latin American nation could bring itself to protest the toppling of the Trujillo empire, and Dr. José Antonio Bonilla Atiles, one of the Trujillo...