Word: withdrawnness
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...secret that the drug was an effective tranquilizer, but it had been withdrawn from the market after thousands of pregnant women who used it delivered malformed babies. "To our surprise," reported Dr. Sheskin in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, "there was rapid subjective and objective improvement." Within eight to 48 hours, pain eased, skin lesions disappeared, and temperature returned to normal. Since then, a score of leprosy patients have been given thalidomide daily, with equally encouraging results...
When U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and the other members of the OAS team drove to rebel headquarters, crowds that had booed a few days before now were silent. Caamaño suggested only a few changes in the proposals. He wanted the Inter-American Peace Force withdrawn within a month after the provisional government took power, demanded that civilian arms be turned over to the new government rather than the OAS. He dropped all pretext of becoming President himself, or of returning to the 1963 constitution of ousted President Juan Bosch. He did ask that the human rights provisions from...
...presidential nomination. First he told Lyndon that he thought Bobby Kennedy would make a fine running mate, was naive enough to suggest that the two might work well together. After Lyndon thumbed Bobby down for the job, Bundy called Bobby and urged him to announce that he had voluntarily withdrawn from the running. That only made Bobby mad. "I'm afraid he hasn't been a very good friend," said Bobby later. Now, Bundy wisely sticks to foreign affairs...
...plot has the simplicity of a short short story. A Southern mother (Maureen Stapleton) long since deserted by her husband, and subsisting on delusions of genteel grandeur, wants to secure a suitable suitor for her slightly crippled daughter (Piper Laurie) who has withdrawn into the reverie world of her collection of tiny glass animals. The restive son of the house (George Grizzard) brings home a "gentleman caller" (Pat Hingle) who arouses the girl's interest and then, guiltlessly, inadvertently, breaks her pet unicorn and -by revealing that he is already engaged-her heart...
...gently applied, despite the bayonets, and considering the fact that, after all, these were victors dealing with the vanquished. All that the North ever demanded, in fact, was full equality for the Negro South; and if the conquered white South had complied, the armed troops would have been withdrawn...