Word: withheld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overeating is the result of a psychological compulsion. It may be fostered by frustration, depression, insecurity-or, in children, simply by the desire to stop an anxious mother's nagging. Some families place undue emphasis on food: conversations center on it, and rich delicacies are offered as rewards, withheld as punishment. The result says Jolliffe: "The child gains the feeling that food is the purpose of life." Food may act as a sedative, giving temporary emotional solace, just as, for some people, alcohol does. Reports Dr. Keys: "A fairly common experience for us is the wife who finds...
Behind Seven Veils. According to Clement, Mark, while he was with Peter in Rome, wrote ''an account of the Lord's doings" that presumably was the basis of his Gospel as it is now known. But he withheld those "doings" which only the initiated should have knowledge of and did not even hint ''at the ones pertaining to the mysteries." After Peter's death, writes Clement, Mark went to Alexandria with Peter's notes on Jesus, from which he "transferred to his former book the things suitable to progress toward knowledge." Even...
...this right, [is] unconstitutional and null and void." At the same time, the court ordered four timorous New Orleans banks to honor checks that the school board had written against its own account, further demanded that the city of New Orleans release to the board $800,000 in withheld funds...
...were leaked to newsmen to sound out public reaction. The name of Bobby Kennedy, as his brother's Attorney General, was floated to the New York Times four weeks ago, and brought immediate outcries of impropriety. Jack satisfied himself that the objections were serious but not fatal, and withheld Bobby's appointment till the last moment, while the public was told of other choices. Another trial balloon, Bill Fulbright as Secretary of State, was quickly shot down by Negro groups and Northern liberals who feared his tepid segregationist background. Negro Congressman William Dawson, 74, suggested as a possible...
Last week the vast but thinly populated (650,000) French territory of Mauritania became the 18th nation to achieve independence this year. Tunisia quickly recognized it, but Morocco refused to, claiming Mauritania as a lost province willfully withheld from it by France. In October Morocco's fiery Deputy Premier, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, 31, flew to Tunis to convince President Habib Bourguiba that he should back the Moroccan claim to Mauritania. Recalls Bourguiba: "The crown prince went so far as to say, 'If ever you want to lay claim to Sicily, we Moroccans will support you.' Sicily...