Word: withdrawnness
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...southern states as Delaware, Rhode Island, Mississippi. To grow a bushel of corn by irrigation requires about 10,000 gallons of water; to grow a ton of alfalfa hay, about 200,000 gallons. At present irrigation soaks up about 100 billion gallons of water daily, almost half the water withdrawn by the entire nation...
...Julius Cecil Holmes, 56, longtime career diplomat and wartime aide to General Dwight Eisenhower, to be U.S. diplomatic agent at Tangier, with the rank of minister. Originally (TIME, Feb. 21), Holmes was scheduled to become Ambassador to Iran, but the nomination was withdrawn because 1) some opposition developed in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and 2) a physical examination disclosed that he had ulcers. Tangier,-unlike Teheran, does not require Senate confirmation, will be less taxing physically for Diplomat Holmes...
...supported the Loyalist Republican government, is still giving financial aid to Loyalist exiles, and paying the rent for Republican headquarters in Paris. With each change in French government, the Spanish ambassador has gone across to the Quai d'Orsay to ask that the subsidy, whatever it is, be withdrawn. Recently Franco has found a way to put a real squeeze on the French...
...skirmish with his own Evangelical Lutheran Church. Charged last month with neglecting the spiritual duties of the church's Foreign Bureau, run by him, Niemöller wrote a bitter letter of resignation to famed Bishop Otto Dibelius, tossed in a threat that unless the charges are withdrawn, "I will hold the time ripe to expose the insupportable intrigues that have taken place within the church...
...Guard." But back in Greenville his opposition to the extremist Citizen's Councils produced more serious results. The state government, which had drawn up a contract for a $25,000 job-printing order with his paper, summarily withdrew it. "It is apparent," said Carter, "that the contract was withdrawn because of political differences...