Word: withholding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study of Army somnambulists [TIME June 18] is unfair to happy, gentle sleepwalkers who are very much interested in women, who never dream of snakes or rabid dogs, or of screaming for Father to come to the rescue. As one of the latter, might I suggest the Colonel withhold further reports until he has studied more than a mere 22 Army men (who probably did not want to join the Army anyway) and try next to include some Navy men, and certainly a Marine or two, whom no one afoot would dare accuse of being "Papa's boys...
...assure him that if he will withhold his opinion of other types of Englishmen until he makes first-hand acquaintance with some of them, he will find many "good eggs" among them also...
...would also have denied her burial in consecrated ground. But Catholic canon law in this respect is flexible, depending largely on the judgment of the local bishop. Since the Mexican Government frequently overrides Church decisions, a Mexican bishop might well be persuaded to grant what a California bishop would withhold. Hence Lupe Velez's body lies in holy ground. But if she took her life deliberately, her soul, according to Catholic doctrine, will find no rest through all eternity...
Artist, poet, and teacher, he is today, as Peter Boolba, American citizen and ardent champion of democracy, a long way from the land of his origin and the city of his birth, Kiev. Born not so long ago, and yet long enough to have him prefer to withhold the date, Peter Boolba's scientific inclinations have enabled him to pursue the varied and kaleidoscopic career to which he lays claim. From the time he left the Alexander I Technical College in Russia, through his years with Bell Laboratories in New York and up to the time of his present position...
...Court had scrapped a nine-year-old precedent. In 1935 the Justices had decided that voting in the primaries was a "privilege" which the Democratic Party could extend or withhold-something like using the lounge in an exclusive club. This week they decided that those who miss out on the Southern Democratic primaries miss out on the election...