Word: withheld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conover Modeling Agency, who built a $2,000,000-a-year business on the "well-scrubbed look" of the American coed type for whom he invented such names as Chili Williams, Candy Jones and Choo Choo Johnson, lost his license in 1959 after his models complained that he had withheld their fees; of a heart attack; in New York City...
...blacks who live on its southern flood plains, the name is a mockery. Ruled by harsh Arab masters for most of the past 200 years, the Sudanese Negroes are little more than primitive prisoners in their own land. Political rights have been denied them, education withheld, and they have managed to preserve their dignity only by clinging to their past. The tall, naked Dinkas still worship animal spirits and fear the evil eye. The fierce Nuer herdsmen still subsist on milk, termites and the blood of cattle. The stately Shilluks still spear lion and crocodile, still stand for hours, cranelike...
...insist that a one-day Mexican divorce is substantially different from a six-week Nevada divorce. In light of the hardships caused by New York's divorce laws, suggested the court, "a balanced public policy requires that recognition of the bilateral Mexican divorce be given rather than withheld...
...nothing. China, desperately wanting the conference as a sounding board for anti-U.S. and anti-Russian blasts, ran the risk of alienating Algerian leftists and recognized the new government. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, while carefully pointing out that recognition was between states, not personalities, still withheld his blessing from the junta that had ousted his close friend and safest ally...
...home where I come from, a man's word and his honor are considered to be all that he has. If his word is no good, we consider that man untrustworthy in all matters. If the committee felt I had done something wrong or that I had deliberately withheld from the committee information which was in my possession, it was their responsibility to speak...