Word: withdrawnness
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When Parliament reconvened after the holiday recess, Premier Gaston Eyskens and his Liberal-Christian government brushed aside Socialists' demands that the Loi Unique be withdrawn, won a vote of confidence 121-83. Those who knew the Premier and his unyielding tenacity predicted that he would fight it through to the bitter end. At 55, Eyskens has lost neither his native Flemish stubbornness nor his passion for cold, precise logic. The stubbornness was vividly illustrated last year when even King Baudouin was demanding his resignation after the Congo was lost; Eyskens held fast, and Baudouin gave in rather than make...
...turned Homer's tale into a tragic and powerful parable about McCarthyism and the destructive force of fear and unreason. He specifically authorized its production without scenery, or over the radio. This Music Crept By Me Upon the Waters (1953), a comedy about five couples who have withdrawn from the banalities of the business world to a "paradise" in the Antilles, does not succeed; its obscurities prevent it from working on the stage...
...turbojet), virtually the only voices raised in their favor were Communist. Echoing Moscow's radio blasts against Hammarskjold, Soviet U.N. Delegate Vasily Kuznetsov protested that most of the U.N. technicians in the Congo had been recruited from Western countries, demanded that "armed groups from Canada" be withdrawn from the Congo, since Canada was a Belgian ally in NATO...
...Navy is working on a magical electrolytic cell containing a sodium sulphate solution. When an electric current passes through it, oxygen bubbles off from one electrode. An acid is formed in the solution at the same electrode, and a caustic accumulates at the other electrode. The caustic can be withdrawn and used to absorb carbon dioxide from the sub's atmosphere. When it is then remixed with the acid from the other electrode, the carbon dioxide separates and can be pumped out of the submarine. What remains is the same sodium sulphate with which the cycle started. When this...
...becomes withdrawn into himself. For this condition Dr. Kanner coined the term "infantile autism." It corresponds roughly to the old, and now outmoded, concept of childhood schizophrenia...