Word: withholding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Therefore, we should not fall into a Communist trap and refuse indefinitely any diplomatic recognition of Communist China. Eventual recognition (which does not mean moral approval) will be an essential step in any effort to support the American position in China. To withhold recognition, beyond the time when our State Department is able to work it out, would be to sell out our business firms trading with China, to desert the 1500 American missionaries still in the field, to surrender a century's investment of good will, and so play into Russia's hands. John K. Fairbank Professor of History
...back up the threat, the well-controlled convention authorized the U.E. bosses to withhold membership payments from C.I.O. headquarters if Murray rejected the obviously unacceptable demands. As an added fillip, it approved a resolution indirectly accusing Murray's steelworkers of selling out labor by accepting the recommendations of President Truman's steel fact-finding board and abandoning first-round wage demands...
...German politicians at Bonn went into a huddle, announced that they would withhold "official" comment for several days. But it was already clear that the Socialists -who had made the loudest demands for a more centralized Western German state" -were bitterly opposed to the new agreement. Berlin's Socialist newspaper Sozial-demokrat called the statute's stringent restrictions on German sovereignty "reasons for sorrow...
...leaned on two sticks as he walked along the snow-covered paths around the Roman Catholic chapel he had vowed to build if his chasa was spared in World War I. "I have never indulged in politics," he said. "My art is public property; I am not supposed to withhold it from anyone...
...intention to withhold facts from the CRIMSON, but merely to present them at a time when, in conjunction with Provost Buck's statement of policy, they would give the undergraduate body the clearest picture of what is going on. . . Rov M. Goodman '51, Chairman, International Activities Committee Harvard Student Council