Word: withdrawnness
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...only been several months since Radcliffe has officially withdrawn its influence from undergraduate life at Harvard, and absolute equality, in both academic and social settings, women say, is still a thing of the future...
...book proposal was eventually withdrawn. But the document circulated, and last week, 25 years after the bludgeoning of Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Conn., Michael Skakel was confronted with a vengeance. He was indicted for her murder. Police showed up to arrest Skakel at the half-million-dollar Florida home he shares with his golf-pro wife and child, but he was already on a plane north. He turned himself in to Connecticut police, pleaded not guilty and was released on $500,000 bail...
...depression or despair. After the parliament's revolt was crushed, Boris the populist disappeared. The man who had once expressed near physical revulsion at the luxury (very modest, by current standards) of Soviet leaders now lived in a series of opulent residences in and around Moscow. He became withdrawn, a tendency reinforced by his declining health, alcohol abuse and dependency on a small number of deeply manipulative aides...
Without opposition, the council then adopted a measure authorizing the CLC to submit non-binding bids for bands. A non-binding bid could be withdrawn if the council decided later not to appropriate the entire $25,000 for the band...
...point Harris gets very quiet. His parents have probably noticed that he's become distant, withdrawn lately--but it's been for their own good. "I don't want to spend any more time with them," he says. "I wish they were out of town so I didn't have to look at them and bond more...