Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sought to take away the Government's most effective integration weapon: the authority granted to HEW under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to withhold federal aid to school districts refusing to carry out adequate plans for desegregation. The Whitten amendment specifically barred HEW from withholding funds to force bussing, the closing of schools or the reassignment of pupils against parental wishes. In effect, it authorized evasive "freedom of choice" desegregation plans, which the Supreme Court has already declared inadequate...
...guerrillas of their rural bases, to cut off their sources of food, ammunition, and sanctuary. These rural bases, it turns out. include most of the villages between the DMZ and the Mekong Delta. Since the inhabitants of these villages support the NLF-they continue to supply them and to withhold information from the Americans. at any rate-we come to the curious American tactic of "destroying a village in order to save it. "Those are the words of the Air Force colonel who supervised the destruction of Ben Thai (and the lives of most of its 12.000 inhabitants...
White's opposition does not necessarily veto the MBTA switch. He said he will withhold his support of the purchase until the Boston Economic Development and Industrial Commission completes a full study of the situation...
...evening of October 3, after the signatures for the petition had been collected, Hokanson and a first-year MBA student approached Aldrich. The first-year student proposed a referendum whereby Aldrich would not release the petition to the press if a majority of the School asked him to withhold it. Aldrich rejected this idea...
Only the day before. Doty had announced his support for the withdrawal resolution. He had originally been the only member of the Biochemistry Department to withhold support; he changed only after Ptashne reworded the resolution and included a preamble saying that the vote was not precedent-setting...