Word: withdrawnness
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...from the beginning; a call for white volunteers to teach in the mixed schools produced twice the necessary number, and a Negro principal was accepted without protest by a mixed teaching staff . . . The records show that only about 15 pupils out of a total of over 20,000 were withdrawn from the public schools in protest against integration...
Welch: The closest we have got you to the hot picture is that you might have placed your hand an it and quickly withdrawn...
...anybody can in no case be tolerated," was establishing "a new colonial rule in Asia." Said Chou: "We also hold that interference in the internal affairs of the Asian nations should be stopped, all foreign military bases in Asia be removed, foreign armed forces stationed in Asian countries be withdrawn, the remilitarization of Japan be prevented, and all economic blockades be abolished." Later a spokesman embarrassed explained that Chou's "foreign troops" did not include Russian troops at China's Port Arthur, who were there to prevent Japan from committing "aggressive acts...
...hope that the CRIMSON, as one of the leading organs of student opinion, will take the lead in urging that these measures, because of their inherent disadvantages, be withdrawn. Franklin D. Thompson...
Hasegawa has at times been as withdrawn from reality in life as in the strange shapes and forms of his art. He studied at Tokyo University, got interested in Sesshu. the great 15th century Japanese Buddhist painter, and this led him to Zen Buddhist monasteries, where he used to sit for hours under the supervision of monks, trying to learn to exclude all thought from his mind, submerge himself in peaceful oblivion. In the early '30s he went to Europe, where he came under the influence of Le Corbusier, Mondrian, Arp and Alexander Calder. Says...