Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changed his mind, partly under persuasion from Scranton, partly because conservative businessmen, among them some of the Pennsylvania G.O.P.'s biggest financial benefactors, threatened to withhold their contributions unless he endorsed Goldwater. Since then, Scott has lukewarmly backed Barry in conservative western Pennsylvania, avoided all mention of Goldwater in urban areas...
...arrests, keeps an eye on the courts for irregularities, supervises the execution of sentences, and acts as prosecuting attorney. The defendant is always at the mercy of the procurator, who is technically collecting only objective facts while he conducts his investigations. Since no Soviet citizen has the right to withhold objective facts, the defendant is thus required to help build the case against himself. The man who is brought to trial is as good as convicted...
...result of a militant livestock-farmers' crusade unleashed on Aug. 19 by the National Farmers Organization (estimated membership: 100,000) in 23 states. Hatched by N.F.O. President Oren Lee Staley, 41, onetime Missouri farmer turned big-league farm organizer, the scheme called for thousands of livestock men to withhold their products in a massive market boycott that would eventually boost meat prices all over the U.S. Then, as Staley planned it, he would negotiate longterm, high-priced contracts with meat packers on behalf of legions of farmers. Staley had tried the same thing...
McNamara dropped back in the standings. But that left Bobby, who made no bones of the fact that he wanted the vice-presidential nomination. Always there was the implied threat that if Bobby did not receive the legacy, legions of devoted J.F.K. followers would withhold their support from L.B.J...
...Communist guerrillas tried to seize power. Sure enough, Papandreou's Cen ter Union, having garnered 173 seats in Greece's 300-member Parliament, rammed through a bill to free most Communist prisoners convicted of sedition and murder, abolish political deportations, and deprive the police of power to withhold work permits on political grounds...