Word: withdrawnness
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...bait-and-switch tactic. They baited the President into a summit and then switched on him." The Democrats in fact are likely to use this package of tax increases as a lever to pry concessions out of the White House at the domestic summit. Though Reagan has withdrawn his frequent pledges to veto anything resembling a tax increase, he has made no secret of his reluctance to go any further than he absolutely must to get a deficit-reduction package...
...became the 11th man defeated by a vote of the Senate. Others who failed to win confirmation had their names withdrawn, or the Senate chose not to act on their nominations...
...that the U.S. clearly was engaged in hostilities in the gulf. That, they argued, required the President to observe the War Powers Resolution. Under the law, Reagan is required to notify Congress of the use of U.S. military forces in a hostile situation; the troops would have to be withdrawn in 60 days unless both houses approved the assignment...
...years ago, however, I found that I no longer had a place I could call home. We moved away from Corinth, from town to town, until we ended up in Trenton, N.J. I had become thouroughly withdrawn, lonely, and friendless by that time. Mostly though, I was fearful--especially of the high crime rate...
...project began as a book about working wives, evolved into a steamy kiss- and-tell memoir, had its best parts lifted by the Washington Post, then was withdrawn from circulation -- all without ever being published. Such was the fate of the 80-page book proposal by Washington Hostess Joan Braden, wife of Syndicated Columnist Tom Braden, frequent companion of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and mother of the brood on which the TV sitcom Eight Is Enough was based...