Word: withdrawnness
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...Saigon, South Vietnamese command spokesman Lt. Col. Tran An announced that "some South Vietnamese units which were heavily engaged by the enemy have been pulled back to South Vietnam. They have not been replaced. Just over a regiment was withdrawn...
...Headplay is also the story of a couple. They first appear rather lightly musing on how the Tibetan Book of the Dead got under their bathtub. As the play progresses the woman gets more involved with drugs and the man more withdrawn into meditation. When communication between the two becomes impossible, the woman decides to leave, shaking the man momentarily out of himself. He asks her to come back in a week when they will go on the best trip ever-the ultimate trip...
...dependents) in 1966 to roughly 15,000 today, and will pare down to 10,000 next year. Such conspicuous U.S. facilities as a huge PX and a boisterous enlisted men's club have been moved from downtown Ankara to the suburbs. More than 500 Peace Corps volunteers were withdrawn last year...
...such variations as the 5-, 10-and 20-pound notes. But in dividing the pound into 100 new pence instead of 240 old pennies, they lost all their old coins. The ha'penny, thrup'ny and sixpenny pieces and the shilling in all its variations are being withdrawn from circulation. They lost something more: many colorful examples of cockney slang, which substitutes rhymed phrases for action words-such as "gawd forbids" for bothersome kids and "trouble and strife" for a nagging wife. No rhymes have yet surfaced for the new currency, hence the following lament...
Soon thoroughly miserable, James nevertheless struggled on for the better part of 3½ years, well liked but withdrawn, notable mainly for his height (he was known as "Moose") and for a certain mastery of poetic metaphors in English class. He dropped out for part of a term, and with Alex, he joined a North Carolina band called the Fabulous Corsayers that played straight rock 'n' roll. Back at Milton, he grew suicidal, and at 17, he signed himself into the McLean Hospital, a mental home in Belmont, Mass...