Word: withdrawnness
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...high-school belly-laughs, "Margie" has a certain nostalgia that is alien to the Swing generation but sacred to its patents. All the touches, from "oh you kid," through the Charleston and Irving Berlin's "Always," down to the high-school debate over whether the Marines should be withdrawn from Nicaragua-recreate the hoteha and ballyhoo of the years just preceding the depression. Especially typical is the portrayal of the high-school football hero, whose raccoon coat, honor-badge of the period, appears as standard equipment whenever the young buck comes in the screen, be it to hootchi-koo, crank...
Little Caesar (1930) and Public Enemy (1931), greatly admired by Museum officials for the "idiomatic vigor of their dialogue and their accurate realization of a period," have been withdrawn by the owners (Warner) from Film Library archives. The Museum can't think of any reason why, except "some new, strange reticence on the part of Warner Bros...
...believe in coming to terms with Russia no longer argue that Russia has a superior social philosophy to give the world. They simply argue that the Russians are a power to be reckoned with, and and that will still be there when and if American and British support is withdrawn...
Haganah first paid off in 1929, when, after the British had withdrawn all licenses for the possession of weapons in Jewish settlements, two hundred Jews were massacred by Arab raiders. Arab onslaughts continued. Where the Jews had "illegal" arms, they protected themselves. Where they had none, it was slaughter. The communities were convinced they could not depend on British protection and steps were taken to train and arm a large-scale defense organization...
...jail so that he could persuade his union to accept the new proposal. The court agreed. But when George was out of the coop, he immediately maneuvered his union into rejecting any settlement until the court lifted the injunction. The city gave in. The injunction was withdrawn...