Word: withdrawnness
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AMERICAN MOTORS, which has not paid dues to the National Association of Manufacturers for three years, has withdrawn from the N.A.M. because of "fundamental disagreement with its policies." Automaker charges N.A.M. with an "antediluvian attitude toward labor...
...work was recognized for what it was?amid the sentimental afterglow of the Victorian Age, only he and Thomas Hardy spoke with the cold, severe voice of tragedy. In 1923 he traveled to the U.S. to see his publisher, whom he called Doubleday Effendi, was lavishly feted, but remained withdrawn. He died one year later, "a Polish gentleman soaked in British tar." Conrad himself best summed up his attitude toward his work in a letter...
...claim to have captured more than 100 tanks and nearly 200 artillery pieces) had won no real victory in Sinai. Said he: "Despite great superiority-three brigades against two battalions-the Israelis attacked Abu Aweigila for three days without success, and finally took it only when our troops had withdrawn...
Next day Tory Backbencher Julian Amery leaped to his feet to demand-"Now that the Leader of the Opposition [has] spoken for Egypt"-whether Butler could "confirm that the troops will not be withdrawn from Port Said until Her Majesty's Government are satisfied that the U.N. is willing, and its police force is able, to secure international control of the canal." Said Butler carefully: "We are not prepared to withdraw until we consider that this force is competent to discharge the tasks which the Assembly has given it to do." Leader of the Opposition Hugh Gaitskell was instantly...
...matters in order to save its skin. And in a final conciliatory burst, Britain sought to placate the Assembly by announcing that withdrawal of one battalion from Port Said would begin before the week was out. The Israelis, in an equally sudden access of amenability, announced that they had withdrawn two brigades-about 6,000 men-from the Sinai peninsula...