Word: withdrawnness
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...time he lived in New York: "I got the feeling that the mother was so wrapped up in her own problems she never really saw her son's. I got the feeling that what the boy needed most was someone who cared. He was just a small, lonely, withdrawn kid who looked to me like he was heading for trouble...
There seems to be little general consensus among students over the rules question. A substitute motion introduced last week to give automatic 3 a.m. permissions to all sophomores was praised as "creeping licentiousness." The motion was later withdrawn...
...largest number in several years--jammed the meeting to hear what had promised to be the most vigorous RGA debate in months. The discussion bogged down on a substitute motion, to grant unlimited 3 a.m. permissions to sophomores. After half an hour of heated debate, this motion was withdrawn...
...bullet pierced his back, plowed down through his chest, fractured his right wrist, and lodged in his left thigh. A photographer looked up at a seven-story building on the corner-the Texas School Book Depository, a warehouse for textbooks-and caught a glimpse of a rifle barrel being withdrawn from a window on the sixth floor...
...Saigon, Lieut General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, the head of the ruling military junta, rode about almost unnoticed in a black Citroen (in contrast to Diem's vast motorcades), visiting a few government offices and military units. He also opened promising negotiations with Vietnamese sects that had withdrawn sup port from Diem but were not ready to rally to the new regime. But while still clearly favored by the population, the new regime seemed oddly reluctant to assume political leadership. One of its few decisions: to abolish the siesta that has traditionally closed government offices for 21 hours each...