Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lyons added that he hoped the President would clarify his order so that agencies wouldn't use it to "withhold legitimate information to cover up their own mistakes...
President Truman has a right to prevent leaks of secret information to the press, Louis Lyons, curator of the Nieman Fellows, said last night. He was referring to the recent presidential order allowing civilian administrative agencies to withhold news from newspapers by classifying it "top secret" and "confidential...
...what is this "point of honor?" The fact is that the honorable teacher has a creed, and cannot, if he tries, withhold its influence. The most scrupulous respecter of the freedom of other minds will, the more scrupulous he is, incline his students to his own scrupulousness. The rightful freedom of minds, the maxims of logic and experienced proof, of intellectual honesty, of tolerance and persuasion, are themselves values. Together with all their personal and social implications they constitute a body of indoctrination to which no objection can of sistently be raised...
...what is this "point of honor?" The fact is that the honorable teacher has a creed, and cannot, if he tries, withhold its influence. The most scrupulous respecter of the freedom of other minds will, the more scrupulous he is, incline his students to his own scrupulousness. The rightful freedom of minds, the maxims of logic and experienced proof, of intellectual honesty, of tolerance and persuasion, are themselves values. Together with all their personal and social implications they constitute a body of indoctrination to which no objection can of distantly be raised...
Since a public complaint might do me harm in other police states, such as Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, etc., please withhold my name...