Word: withheld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dusan Simic, a staff writer for Borba, Yugoslavia's largest daily newspaper, was not "surprised when I got to America. We get almost all American films. The few we don't get," he added, "such as From Here to Eternity, are withheld by your country...
...essential feature of this rabbit lies in the inversion of its natural role. The rabbit in question is an obstacle. One woman (whose name I have withheld) observed that the "enormous rabbit" resembles a chocolate Easter-bunny, from which she inferred that the author had made a sly cut at American middle-aged women (and men) for whom overweight is such a problem. The inversion in size would denote their making mountains out of mole hills. Needless to say, this is naive...
...discovered $200,000 in overcharges. Even before Gerosa released his report, seven top officials of the Real Estate Bureau had resigned, been dismissed or suspended. But the real dynamite lay in the fact that the report was made public only last week: first written in 1956, it had been withheld throughout Democrat Wagner's unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign that year and his successful campaign for re-election...
...Report, the Committee on General Education indicated a sincere concern for giving the generally educated student a fundamental comprehension of the natural sciences. Yet, partly through implication and partly through direct statement, the Committee withheld an important tool for the adequate presentation of the scientific method...
...quickly as possible, the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther is plumping for a temporary suspension of withholding taxes. Ford Motor Vice President Theodore O. Yntema goes even farther, suggests a moratorium on all income taxes, whether withheld or paid quarterly. Neither plan has found much support, largely because both are considered unconventional, difficult to administer. Labor unions and some Democrats have suggested a rise in the personal income-tax exemption from $600 to $700 or $800. Legislators of both parties frown on such a plan because it would free millions of people from paying any taxes, remove the sense...