Word: withdrawnness
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...France still riven by the Algerian war, he demanded admission to a three-power directorate of NATO, but the idea was blackballed by Eisenhower and Macmillan. He probably would have been as intransigent as a co-director as he has been without becoming one. Since then, he has progressively withdrawn French ground and naval forces from NATO commands, banished U.S. nuclear warheads from French soil, and sunk billions of francs into a crash program to create a nuclear force de frappe...
...difficult to guess where the money went. Tshombe's own Katangese officials had withdrawn huge sums of money without troubling to leave receipts. One unnamed official waltzed off with 133 million Katangese francs (worth $2,660,000 at the official exchange rate of 50 to $1 ) in a single swipe. Some 4,000 gold coins valued at $280,000 were smuggled to Geneva for sale by a European syndicate. There was evidence that the bank had transferred 1 billion francs to a branch 150 miles away in Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, to buy arms and pay mercenaries...
...first Chamberlain would not admit that he really was 7 ft. tall (he used to claim that he was 6 ft. 11¾ in.), and even today he is wary and withdrawn with all but his closest friends. "It's not that I don't trust people," he says. "I do trust people-but it's impossible for me to hide. I can't just put on dark glasses. The only way I could get any privacy would be to cut off my legs...
...proud union, with roots buried deep in the 18th century, when some New York City compositors agitated for a pay increase to $1 a day. The I.T.U. printer considers his job a personal possession, like a car or a house-not a work privilege to be conferred and withdrawn by management...
...screening of a movie (preferably a comedy) or sit with Yvonne before the television set, like any bourgeois couple, until his 11 o'clock bedtime. There is a certain displeasure in France because 62-year-old Yvonne "does not play the President's wife." Self-effacing, silent, withdrawn, Mme. de Gaulle so avoids publicity that she is one of the most anonymous of all the wives of world leaders. A devout Roman Catholic, she is rumored to have vetoed a projected ministerial appointment because she disapproved of the sexual laxity of the man's wife. Her effect...