Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When my men discover the approach of a patrol party, they withhold action until they hear the marauders encounter our barbed-wire entanglements running down the slopes on all sides...
While reaffirming its previous decision of barring Earl Browder, Communist leader, from speaking at Harvard, the Corporation has set up a Faculty-Undergraduate committee with "wide powers" to grant and withhold permission to use University buildings, it was announced last night...
...general, the Corporation defended the wisdom of retaining the power to withhold permission for use of the buildings as "essential and proper." Pointing out that refusal will be rare, the Corporation concludes, ". . . attention is again called to the fact that Harvard has at no time adopted the policy of refusing permission to a speaker because of his party affiliations or his political views...
...extent of Macdonald's injury, received during a 15 minute pressure punting drill, was not immediately ascertained. Medicos decided to withhold judgment on him until today. The Crimson leader was felled by a hard-charging scrub line as he was attempting to get off a punt...
...fired for peace all the ammunition left in his locker. Next move would be to recall Congress, ask it to revise Neutrality. But that move he could not well take before actual war broke and its form was known. Meantime, should formal war be declared, he was bound to withhold from its angers all U. S. weapons (above calibre .22) and ammunition, from pistols through planes, motors and warships to flamethrowers, to the belligerents...