Word: withdrawnness
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...Leader Russell Means was jubilant. "We want to see headlines that say 'U.S. surrenders to Indians,' " he told newsmen. In fact, the Justice Department had done the only sensible thing. The wonder was not why its agents had suddenly withdrawn, but why they had not been ordered to do so earlier, to defuse a dangerous situation. At most, Justice had made a tactical retreat. It plans to convene a grand jury early this week to consider indictments, and a courtroom showdown seems inevitable. AIM leaders were not only resigned to that possibility, but almost appeared to relish...
...Gray is rooted in his lack of law-enforcement experience. Gray, who became a lawyer while on active duty with the Navy in 1949, retired after 20 years of military service in 1960. He was nominated for a federal judgeship, but because of his meager qualifications, th nomination was withdrawn before the American Bar Association could officially act upon it. He and Nixon had met at a Washington cocktail party in 1947, and the two have been on friendly terms ever since...
...visited Son Lance, 20, who has taken up a homosexual life in New York City; a brushfire has nearly destroyed the family's four-bedroom home; the antagonism between Pat and Bill has become obvious. Bill comes across as a charming gladhander, while Pat seems more withdrawn and unhappy. The children are all different. Lance, for example, looks and acts effeminate, while Kevin, 18, is a typical high school politician...
...Garden City, Mich., a teacher persuaded a father to get a physician to prescribe Ritalin to calm his restless six-year-old daughter Joanie. The drug made her so withdrawn that she would sometimes sit for hours doing nothing. "One day I got panicky," her father said. "I had just said her name softly, and she started sobbing uncontrollably." A battery of tests disclosed that Joanie was perfectly healthy. What she needed was drill in basic reading, not drugs...
...release stated that Hynes had withdrawn from the College and gave a brief summary of his career statistics. It made no mention of plagiarism or of a requirement to withdraw...