Word: withheld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Koppell added that Marlin agreed to deliver the manuscript February 1 but withheld delivery until the end of March. At this time, Koppell reported, Marlin said he would not turn over copy unless Koppell signed the agreement, which he did "so that the guide could be published in time for distribution for the summer season...
...recover an estimated $600 million a year in dodged taxes, personal income tax on corporate dividends, savings account and bond interest will be withheld in advance...
Unproved Case. In 1951 Puller roused a national storm by saying that the U.S. was turning soft and by suggesting that fighting men might better be trained on beer and whisky than on ice cream. (He himself was never a man to refuse a drink-a fact discreetly withheld by Biographer Davis.) He once marched his men along an asphalt highway under a broiling sun until even tough young officers were passing out. "We can't hope to win future wars-and we got the hell beat out of us in Korea-unless we have discipline," he said...
...cosmos. Her scene is, like the Greek stage, mercilessly compact and periodically given to disquieting revelations and messengered melodrama. The Mighty and Their Fall concerns an enslaving, egocentric widower, Ninian, and his devoted daughter, Lavinia. Ninian decides to remarry. Lavinia becomes emotionally unhinged, a letter is mysteriously withheld, and a family will turns up with a deathbed injunction scrawled on it. By such classic Compton-Burnett devices, not only are the characters' outer fortunes made or marred, but their inner natures are thrust into the light. The mannered speech gives its human disclosures a fine comic intonation; what Compton...
...member disclosed that the Boston chapter of Turn Toward Peace has set April 21 as the date for a small local peace march. However, Tocsin last night withheld its official sanction of the action...