Word: withdrawnness
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...members of the HDC have received polls with the names of six nominees, two of whom will be chosen by the executive committee to fill the places of graduating members. According to the constitution, fifty per cent of the membership must veto a nominee before his name is withdrawn...
...American Indian Project volunteers everywhere, the summer is one of small achievements -- of solving a 10-year-old's "identity crisis," making a psychopath cry, teaching a withdrawn six-year old girl to swim, telling a four-year-old how to skip stones. The larger social problems evade solution...
...vanished entirely; it has simply been capped for the time being, like a gusher in a Texas oil field. With his three biggest messages of the year coming up in the next few weeks-those on the State of the Union, the Budget and the Economy-Lyndon Johnson has withdrawn for a needed period of consultation and concentration...
...government agencies and state-run businesses went an order to fire all workers who sign up for the airlift. To make life doubly difficult and possibly discourage any more Cubans from signing up to leave, the Communists also announced that before departing, would-be exiles must return every peso withdrawn from their bank accounts since Sept. 28-the date of Castro's "open door" speech...
Maugham was by nature, and by his own admission, cold and withdrawn. "There are very few people who know anything about me. And even they do not know as much as they imagine." He was a watcher, not a participant...