Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much so that Albania rounded up Russian spies for trial, executed a gaggle of pro-Khrushchev Albanian party officials, closed down Russia's submarine base at Valona. Western diplomats in Geneva have been astonished to find Soviet delegates confiding that scores of Russian atomic technicians have been withdrawn from China in recent months, after China complained that the Russians were not supplying reactors they needed to make atomic weapons material...
...elegant than the intense manner of the Bolshoi. The result, in the Kirov's production of Giselle, was a performance that avoided all pyrotechnics in favor of a leisurely, unified, deliberately understated approach. Where the Bolshoi version strives for brilliance and momentum, the Kirov version was poetic and withdrawn-more of a spectacle than an unfolding drama. To many observers, the performance was unsatisfactory-but the Kirov productions of Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake easily made up for it. Substantially different from the version offered by Britain's Royal Ballet (the famous fish dives were omitted from...
...their campaign. The Justice Department brought suit against four local Alabama police officials, including Birmingham's Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, to enjoin them from interfering with interstate bus traffic. Justice's charges: the cops had not only failed to respond quickly to the riots but had actually withdrawn from some trouble spots to give the mobs a free hand...
...would probably turn not to the Liberals but to the Socialists for help in forming a government. Socialist Leader Paul-Henri Spaak himself has ambitions for the nation's top job; moreover, the Socialists insisted that they would not cooperate unless the controversial economic austerity law is withdrawn...
...free use of the money for five days annually. Along with the new interest arrangements, to be computed quarterly, the banks will give depositors an additional bonus: money deposited during the first ten days of the month will be figured in the interest charts for the entire month; money withdrawn during the last three days will not affect the monthly rate...