Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided to withhold the real nature of the President's illness from the public for hours after the diagnosis, and why was that decision made? See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Occlusion...
Dean Smith has rightly said, "These things must go through channels." The police and University should withhold action until the facts have been established and a cooling-off period has passed. Justice should be done, but not in a kangaroo court presided over by a bulldog...
Last week Erhard appealed to the six-nation European Coal and Steel Community at Luxembourg to withhold approval of the Ruhr coal-price hike. To back up the appeal, Erhard wheeled up his biggest price-defense weapon-his power to let more competing imports into the country. As a starter, he ordered his ministry to prepare schemes to slash rail freights on foreign oil and U.S. coal. At week's end the coalmen were still holding their prices up, and Erhard was stubbornly getting ready to fire the gun of low-priced imports that always in the past...
Those salesmen who already had outside addresses do have a legitimate quarrel. They can argue, and rightly, that the University's Solicitation Committee should not withdraw or withhold their right to sell in dormitories simply because they have not joined a firm which offers them no particular benefits. It seems clear that such "join-or-lose-your-franchise" threats have been at least implied, if not explicitly stated...
Patiently, precisely, Durant portrays the manifold consequences of Luther's revolt. Every man might now be his own theologian; every state (if it had the power) might withhold its allegiance to Rome. The tortures and burnings of heretics on both sides became part of each nation's struggle to maintain its chosen order. Britain's Henry VIII, for example, quarreled with Papists as well as Protestants when he deemed them a menace to his royal law and order, was apt to burn both on the same day. Luther condemned radical sectarians-Zwinglians, Anabaptists, peasant-reformers-with righteous...