Word: withholds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep them in such balance that the economy would not be upset by overproduction in one field, shortages in another. In Canada's free economy, Howe had no direct power to stop any citizen from launching any legitimate business. But he had the power to grant or withhold priorities, tax write-offs and government loans...
...fingertips, as teacher, husband and colleague. His heart is failing, too, forcing him to leave his job, to no one's regret. Stuffy and coldly embittered, he is derided by his pupils, who call him "The Crock"; patronized by the headmaster (Wilfrid Hyde White), who is ready to withhold his pension; cuckolded by a younger instructor (Nigel Patrick), who vaguely pities him; despised by his wife (Jean Kent), who is not only unfaithful but keeps him fully posted on her infidelities...
Last week the President went ahead anyway; he ordered civilian agencies to set up a security check on news, which will permit them to "classify" (i.e., withhold) any information they think might have military value. The President left it up to each department head to suppress whatever news he chose...
...President's pronouncement was barely two days old (and still not in effect) when the Office of Price Stabilization pulled just the sort of trick that newsmen feared would become commonplace under the new order. OPS employees were told to withhold from the press any information that "might prove embarrassing to the OPS." Joe Short spied the news on an A.P. teletype at the White House, hastily and huffily took the price agency to task. OPS, lamely explaining that it had simply wanted to safeguard confidential information which businessmen give the office, canceled the notice...
...would be unfortunate to enlarge the area for withholding news," Lyons said. The military departments already have almost unlimited rights to withhold developments...