Word: withdrawnness
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...been in a polite wrangle over currency payments. On top of the brutal ravages of war, South Korea was suffering, as it had since war's beginning, from galloping inflation. As prices kept on rising, the Rhee government demanded some $90 million in repayment for Korean won withdrawn by U.S. military and other agencies for their day-to-day uses. The U.S. recognized the debt, but before it 'paid the money it wanted some assurance that a new flood of dollars would not be used to create still more inflation...
...view of Maybank and other willing tippers prevailed. By last week the new rule had been withdrawn and everything had been tipped back into place...
...office bust that followed such films as death of a salesman and Streetcar Named desire in "51 was a delight to the quo Vadis school of cinema which holds that art is not entertainment, and to add to the Oscar committee's woes, several studies have withdrawn their financial support from the Awards...
...year 405, Roman rule in Britain seemed as placid and secure as it had been 200 years before. True, the garrisons in the north had been withdrawn to Londinium (London) some years before, but then there had been no real enemies for them to fight. Also, the authority for Wales and most of the west country had been delegated to the barbarian federated kings, but they were loyal, even if they paid no taxes, and only small tribute...
...less than three years of its existence, the Committee has advised that over 250 pocket books, comic books, and lurid magazines be withdrawn from the shelves, or at least withheld from persons under 18 years of ago. At first, members concentrated chiefly on pocket editions--the 25 cent variety. Lately, however, it has moved into the sphere of the comic books and has banned such magazines as "Wink" and "Whisper...