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Word: withholds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago, Roberto Rossellini's latest film, "The Miracle," was scheduled to come to Boston. Recent attacks on this film in New York however have caused its American distributors temporarily to withhold leases on the picture. These attacks are a direct attempt to smother the public's freedom of choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Miracle | 1/27/1951 | See Source »

...Brinks case and of allowing graft. When the lone Republican member of the Metropolitan District Commission requested a look into the Commission's files last month, the four Democratic members refused. The Republicans went to the Supreme Court and received permission. But the Democrats used a legal technicality to withhold action until after the election, neither appealing the court decision nor opening the files...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/3/1950 | See Source »

...above all, what the U.S. had to do from now on would depend largely on what the Soviet Union did. "I shall not attempt to predict the course of events," said Harry Truman. "But I am sure that those who have it in their power to unleash or withhold acts of armed aggression must realize that new recourse to aggression in the world today might well strain to the breaking point the fabric of world peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Fabric of Peace | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

...into his operas. He put his concern with faith into The Medium; he was raised a Roman Catholic, and although he says he has lost his religious faith, "I have not lost faith in faith." In The Consul his thesis is "To this we've come; that men withhold the world from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer on Broadway | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...Venizelos, son of the late great Eleutherios Venizelos, as Premier. This split the Liberals away from the coalition government planned by Venizelos and Plastiras, and favored by the U.S. Then followed maneuvers to line up right-wing royalist support behind Venizelos. U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady quickly threatened to withhold ECAid, implying that only a center coalition could govern Greece efficiently. After 23 frustrating days in office, Venizelos resigned, blaming his fall on "the Allied factor." This is a phrase frequently heard in Greece; it is the Greeks' word for Uncle Sam. Grady's intervention in Greek politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Allied Factor | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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