Word: withholds
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...Catholics had dedicated "South Africa and its people" to the "Blessed Virgin Mary Assumed into Heaven." Also alarmed at Catholic growth in South Africa (e.g., 170,000 Catholics of white or mixed race, 660,000 Negroes, 60 hospitals which recognize no color bar), the synod instructed church members to "withhold all support of Roman Catholic hospitals and other institutions for the sake of maintaining the Protestant faith in South Africa...
...mutual agreements with hostile neighbors. Last week, against the objections of Syria and in open defiance of the U.N., Israel went steadily ahead day & night with a canal project to divert part of the Jordan's waters for hydroelectric power, whereupon the State Department announced that it would withhold U.S. economic aid ($65 million last year) until the Israelis stop work on the canal...
...press would have liked to withhold judgment until it saw a more dignified number, but got caught up in the enthusiasm. "Rabovsky," wrote the Times critic, "had a ballon [ballet talk for the ability to remain in the air during jumps] that would have ensured any rubber ball a five years' guarantee." Said the Manchester Guardian: "They danced with a brilliance and a vitality [that] can be equaled by no dancer in the Western world...
Congress already has plenty of power-to investigate, to withhold funds and to legislate-and to give Congress any further power (say, in the matter of foreign policy) would not only hamstring the executive branch in its day-to-day handling of foreign affairs, but would also upset the balance of government so wisely planned and laid out by our forefathers when they wrote the Constitution...
From the Senate, the bill-$2.3 billion less than the Truman Administration proposed and $156 million less than the Eisenhower Administration requested-went to Senate-House conference. The House version would authorize only $4.9 billion, would flatly withhold $1 billion from Europe until the European Defense Community is a reality. No matter which way the final version leans, there seemed to be little doubt that the end of donation diplomacy is in sight...