Word: withdrawnness
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...hospital because of a stroke, he was denied bicarbonate. "This at once produced a violent emotional reaction," reported Dr. Melrose, "and he became restless, aggressive and difficult to handle." The doctors decided to taper him off, gave him successively smaller doses until at last the bicarb was completely withdrawn...
This brand of Yankee savvy and showmanship has outshone the Communists at most recent trade shows; the U.S.S.R. has actually withdrawn from at least five major fairs rather than face U.S. competition...
...Syria is finding itself unpopular on every one of its borders. The Syrians dislike the Turks to the north only a little less than they hate the Israelis on the south. They quarrel bitterly with the pro-Western Iraqis on their east. And last week, after Syria had glumly withdrawn its 4,000 troops from Jordan, the Syrian army issued an angry statement accusing the Jordanians of having at one point in last April's crisis requested "three Iraqi divisions, placed at the frontier, aiming to attack the Syrian forces...
...several employee groups have withdrawn from the HUERA within the past few years. Just this month the bindery workers voted to join an AFL craft union, and employees of the Department of Athletics would enter Local 254, if the State Labor Relations Board upholds the Local's protest on two decisive votes cast in a jurisdictional election...
Behind the Amis vogue is a conscious retreat from Utopia. The "new men'' have withdrawn from politics-and politics has withdrawn from them. Amis himself spelled it out in a pamphlet entitled Socialism and the Intellectuals. Fumblingly written but painfully sincere, it may be the first authentic manifesto of an apolitical literary age. Amis confesses that he finds politics a bore, and that he votes the Labor ticket as a kind of conditioned reflex-two admissions which infuriated British Laborites and old-line liberals. Analyzing his own apathy, Amis makes the pertinent reflection that intellectuals are political romantics...