Word: withdrawnness
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...congenital eye defect condemned him to thick lenses and excluded him from the wide fraternity of athleticism. Reserved, almost withdrawn as a boy, he read every book in the local library. Later, because he was essentially lonely, he became a joiner. In 1918, his field-artillery regiment was sent to France, where Captain Truman for the first time on record displayed the cockerel courage that was to characterize his career. Later he recalled his greeting to the battery: "I told them I knew they had been making trouble for the previous commanders. I said, 'I didn't come...
...spite of Ebert's pro-Mysteclin testimony, the FDA decided to prohibit the sale of the commonly prescribed drug. The FDA had nearly withdrawn the drug in 1969 after a National Academy of Sciences. National Research Council panel declared Mysteclin-F to be ineffective...
...plenty for their families, will gobble and gorge until they vomit, rather than share anything even with their infants. It was common, he writes, "to see the very young prying open the mouths of the very old and pulling out food they had been chewing." Children are torpid and withdrawn. If a man's wife falls by the trailside, he will leave her to die, then grumble if someone else robs the body first. The old, weak or blind will be tripped, pushed off balance, and at the last ignored as though dead while still alive. "Misfortune of others...
...effect. As a result, skyjackers have not reduced their armaments. Similarly, an offer by pilots and airlines to pay $25,000 for information leading to a skyjacker's arrest triggered responses from armed bounty hunters who were "usually more dangerous and deranged than the skyjackers." The offer was withdrawn-but so quietly that "some of those nuts" are presumably still riding planes looking for trouble and likely to provoke...
...convinced that this open-minded approach is the best way to reach questioning Dutch teenagers. The bishops of the two dioceses involved have reservations about the course, but apparently prefer it to the adhoc sex-and-sociology classes that preceded it. Nevertheless the Vatican has ordered the new course withdrawn from...