Word: withhold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THOSE who deny pleasure to themselves are all too ready to withhold it from others. The Discoverers is too matter-of-fact. We honor heroes by building myths in their memory; and myths, not facts, give us the passion and the will to be heroes. The passion of discovery shows most readily with the most exotic and most romantic figures, and passages about them are the most interesting in the book Ferdinand Magellan, who "with five barely seaworthy ships would face rougher seas, negotiate more treacherous passages, and find his way across a broader ocean" than any previous explorer, when...
Feldstein reportedly received warnings from White House officials to withhold public criticism of Reagan's economic policies or resign...
...first to withhold applause for Israel's every aggressive move. However, the brilliance of his book is the reasoning behind it. On the surface, Oz's goals are simple and direct: Israel out of Lebanon, now. No more annexation, and full-scale peace with her neighbors. Lest his demands begin to sound like as Israeli version of the American anti-Vietnam sentiment of the 60s, Oz couches his goal in a sophisticated humanitarian vision...
Meanwhile Devine was able to show, as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit he brought in federal court, that an NRC official had ordered his investigators to withhold and even destroy documents disclosing problems at Zimmer...
Interest in the Harvard-South Africa relationship picked up a year later, when a small number of seniors asked alumni returning for their class reunions to withhold donations to Harvard, in protest of its investments in companies with links to the apartheid regime...