Word: withdrawnness
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...combat while inflicting tremendous casualties on the Japanese. But the static Nhpum Ga siege had broken their spirits-while amoebic dysentery, malaria, scrub typhus and psychoneurosis had put 1,970 men out of action. The Marauders were neither prepared nor equipped for the Myitkyina battle. They were withdrawn in June, disbanded in August...
This cancellation was necessitated last week when the film library of the Museum of Modern Art notified the organization that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had withdrawn the movie from public circulation...
...would be terminated Dec. 31, and "Bonn authorities will have to file applications for renewal." Was this the beginning of another Berlin blockade? Many West Berliners feared so; and their concern over the barge traffic was increased by the fact that the British too, like the Russians, had quietly withdrawn their supervision of barge registrations more than a month...
...this went, and as was no doubt obvious, I decided to do as little as possible so I wouldn't make a mistake." Six weeks later, the same student tried it again. Once more, he quickly became withdrawn and paranoid. His description: "Complete and insoluble confusion and anxiety reigned . . . One hallucination was that of lying flat on a slowly revolving, cloudlike object, and there were other similar objects all around, touching gently and revolving 'in gear.' I just slowly rolled down into the depths of the arrangement. Another was of a flowerbed type of pattern, or perhaps...
...transfer rescinded. Huddleston's withdrawal, said Anglican Bishop Richard Ambrose Reeves of Johannesburg, was one of the heaviest blows yet suffered by South Africa's nonwhites. Said the London Daily Mirror: "It is as if Gideon, about to overthrow the altars of Baal, had suddenly been withdrawn to grow watermelons...