Word: withhold
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Even when churchgoers do withhold gifts, the gesture often proves empty. A rich woman who refused a donation to East Texas Baptist College after it desegregated was asked where she expected to find any segregated institution worthy of her beneficence. "That's what's worrying me," she said...
...same time, the Council asked that DPW commissioner Francis W. Sargent withhold any decision on the Belt route until the Council had reconsidered its policy. It has been reported that Sargent would pick a path before the beginning of December...
...only ask in the face of these costs whether "victory" will, in any case, be possible. A recent article in the Washington Post reported that full-time Viet Cong strength rose from 65,000 to 80,000 during the month of September alone. Hanoi and Peaking may withhold their armies only so long. And increased bombing can only alienate large pockets of the Vietnamese population...
...foresee that the United States would smell defection if he merely talked to China. He believed that his country's solid commitment to capitalism and to the West should allow some latitude in dealing with the Communist world. But almost immediately an infuriated Johnson gave instructions to withhold the $225 million pledge earmarked to launch Pakistan's third five year plan. Johnson also indefinitely cancelled Ayub's visit to Washington. In April Pakistan jabbed once more at the Rann of Kutch. India retaliated with a full onslaught of American weapons and Ayub proposed the halting of all arms shipments...
...Beaches. Pinay's coyness mirrored De Gaulle's own. Le general cannily intends to withhold his own election plans until the last moment, but nobody much doubts that he will try for another seven-year term.*Nor does anyone doubt that he can succeed. Still, two candidates from the right and one from the left, plus an obscure entry from the farmers' lobby, have leaped into the ring...