Word: withdrawnness
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...History offers each of its great challenges only once. After only one failure, or one refusal, the offer is withdrawn. Babylon, Athens, Thebes, Alexandria, Madrid, Vienna sink back, and do not rise again. ... It may be that the darkness of great tragedy will bring to a quick end the short, bright history of the United States -for there is enough truth in the dream of the New World to make the action tragic. The United States is called before the rehearsals are completed. Its strength and promise have not been matured by the wisdom of time and suffering...
Some of the most famous had withdrawn into the wings-to let younger men take over, or simply to rest. The A.A.F.'s General of the Army "Hap" Arnold was content to putter around his Sonoma (Calif.) ranch, contribute an occasional folksy column to the local paper. Effervescent Admiral "Bull" Halsey, another five-star officer, was less satisfied. He had hoped for a job in private industry, but the President disliked the idea of his elder military statesmen accepting salaries while drawing full lifetime Government pay. Bull Halsey traveled and made speeches...
Some progress had been made on the Austrian draft treaty (such as an agreement "in principle" that Allied troops should be withdrawn 90 days after the treaty's signature). But still unsolved were the most important issues: Russia's demand for a free hand over anti-Communist D.P.s in Austria and her insistence that Austrian property which had been seized or absorbed by the Nazis be surrendered to Russia as reparations (TIME...
...imposition of countervailing tariffs on goods sent to the U.S. under export subsidies by foreign governments. Shanghai believed that the U.S. Consulate had announced that it would invoke the countervailing machinery against Soong's subsidies. Some Chinese drew from that the sensational conclusion that the U.S. had withdrawn all support of Chiang's Government. (The State Department in Washington was informed by its Shanghai Consulate that it had merely announced that Soong's measure had been forwarded to Washington which would determine whether or not it was an export subsidy...
Abie long since proved to be impervious to critical assault & battery. It made its author, Anne Nichols, a millionaire several times over with its six years on Broadway (1922-28), innumerable road tours and stock performances, foreign royalties, one previous movie (1928) and a radio soap opera (withdrawn last year by Procter & Gamble after vigorous listener protests). In Manhattan for the premiere, Playwright Nichols predicts that Abie will go on making money for another 25 years...