Word: withholds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Token? The impact of Almond's decision spread fast and spread hard through the South. Virginia, the traditional leader, had originally provided in its massive-resistance laws-in its authorization for the Governor and/or assembly to seize control of the schools from local districts, to close schools, to withhold school funds, etc.-a promising pattern of lawful resistance to the Supreme Court's basic 1954-55 decisions. Now Virginia was setting what amounted to a new pattern of limited or token integration, which had already been pioneered in North Carolina. Desperately, the Virginia General Assembly's extremists...
...state laws but we feel it is the responsibility of an educational institution to ascertain what the law really means. At a time when more and more thinking people all over the world are concerning themselves with the dilemma of over-population, an institution like Widener Library should not withhold from its students any work which deals with a subject of such significance to the survival of mankind as the control of human reproduction. Karl Sax (Harvard M.S. '17, S.Sc. '22), Professor of Botany, President, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts...
...course, filming a heavily allegorical, one-character story is an ambitious undertaking. But with the realization that La Mar is "a woman who can give or withhold great favors" from the moviemaker as well as from the fisherman, and with less overall slavishness to Hemingway's manuscript, The Old Man and the Sea could have been one of Hollywood's all-too-few artistic successes...
...perfect right to describe him as he did. Actually, the Pennsy, not Phillips, was the injured party. It was Phillips, said Judge Kraft, who had "knowingly, maliciously and intentionally violated" SEC rules by secretly sending telegrams to two Swiss banks in an effort to have the banks withhold their proxies. Only slightly taken aback, Phillips announced that he would appeal-to demand that Pennsy's directors be required to pay from their own pockets the cost of fighting his attempt to get on the board...
...invasion of Egypt. When Russia's Arkady Sobolev strode into the Security Council waving a wire-service report that Britain and France were threatening to invade Egypt, Lodge promptly added to his Israel-must-withdraw resolution a provision calling upon all U.N. members (i.e., Britain and France) to withhold assistance from Israel "as long as it has not complied with this resolution." Britain vetoed. During the painful weeks that followed, Lodge found himself voting with Sobolev against historic U.S. allies, had the task of working out the details of the British, French and Israeli withdrawals. "I forgot what sleep...