Word: withdrawnness
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...height of September's riots over the admission of nine Negro students to Central High, 1,000 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division were flown into Little Rock to keep order, and 10,000 Arkansas National Guardsmen were federalized to help them. Gradually, the paratroops were withdrawn and the majority of guardsmen demobilized. President Eisenhower's new order affects only 360 National Guard enlisted men and 40 officers still federalized and still on duty at Central High School to bar agitators and prevent incidents among the 2,000 students. Last week, as the last 400 guardsmen prepared...
...warrior shall be withdrawn until the battle is won," proclaimed the Peking People's Daily. "All must join battle ardently and courageously; we must persevere with the doggedness of revolutionaries." Into battle, thus exhorted, went the Chinese millions to wage war on the lowly sparrow...
...Gaillard got his vote of confidence (282 to 196), but with it came a blunt threat from right-wing ex-Premier Andre Marie: "We give you our confidence, but if the government makes any unacceptable concessions to Tunisia through the Good Offices mission, our confidence would be withdrawn...
...James MacArthur, 20, turned The Tongues of Angels into one of the best hours of Studio One since the rating-rickety show deserted Manhattan for Hollywood last January. The adopted son of Actress Helen Hayes and the late Play-Mright Charles (The Front Page) MacArthur, young MacArthur caught the withdrawn dignity and explosive rage of a troubled teen-ager who was befriended and helped by a farm girl (Margaret O'Brien). His acting persevered over a plot that did wonders for the hero's stammer but never overcame its own. Though he won praise for his playing...
According to Peterson, who had previously withdrawn from the race because of alleged corruption, Dawson gave Symphony tickets to certain freshman members of the HYRC in return for their votes. Dawson admitted that he gave out some tickets, but that he also distributed them to non-members...