Word: withdrawnness
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...week's end Divinity Student Lawson was unsure whether or not to accept Vanderbilt's offer. But nine of the twelve faculty men had already withdrawn their resignations. Said Chancellor Branscomb: "This matter is now closed, and except for necessary details, will not be further discussed...
Faced with Vice President Nixon's overwhelming claim on the nomination, Rocky had withdrawn last December as an active challenger. Republicans of every hue, including Dick Nixon, immediately and persistently began to woo him as the most promising vice-presidential candidate around, but Rocky straight-armed every proposal. Last week Rockefeller announced that, to avoid any possible vice-presidential stampede, he would stay away from the Republican convention in Chicago...
...presidency. In three successive interviews, the general hammered at Rhee with heavy hints that if the students rioted again, the Korean army would probably refuse to shoot or even to quell them, and the two U.S. divisions manning the border with North Korea might well be withdrawn from the peninsula. Rhee listened, but temporized...
...major shock of the week was the announcement that Jeremy Fry, 35, a longtime bohemian friend of Tony Armstrong-Jones, had withdrawn as best man at the royal wedding next month. The stated reason : a recurrence of jaundice. When clamorous newsmen asked if Fry were stepping down for any reason apart from his health, a royal spokesman replied: "No comment." The sensational Sunday newspaper, The People, breathlessly revealed that in 1952 Fry had been arrested in Hyde Park, fined ?2 after pleading "guilty to a minor offense," and stated in court, "I'm afraid I was rather drunk...
...novels). But the real drama, revealed piecemeal and with a strange detachment, takes place in Millhouser's own soul. He was born in the 1850s, idolized his father, and never really recovered from the father's death shortly after the Civil War. His mother, a strong but withdrawn woman, could not make up the loss. When Millhouser leaves for college he is starved for love, and he finds a substitute in an absorbing friendship with a brilliant young man a few years his senior. Innocence in the 1870s is hardly more surprising than blue eyes...