Word: withholding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion slum-clearance plan, Rockefeller put on a remarkable display of arm-twisting, forcing 34 legislators to reverse their votes and give him a resounding political victory. In an amazing confession for a politician, Rocky later admitted he had passed out warnings to balky assemblymen that he would withhold such "personal favors" as jobs for their friends and his approval of their pet bills if they refused to cooperate. Said he: "Those guys have never seen this side of me before...
...needed). Thus Rockefeller could justify his entry in Oregon on the basis of popular promptings. Besides his popularity in the state, Rockefeller would enjoy the asset of California Governor Ronald Reagan's presence on the ballot. Reagan, who last week reaffirmed his decision not to withhold his name, can only draw votes from Nixon...
Superconservative. In the past, Kuchel gained few friends among conservative Republicans by refusing to support the campaigns of Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and George Murphy. Reagan is publicly remaining "neutral," though privately urging Republican contributors to withhold funds from Rafferty in order to maintain party unity. Yet Rafferty's supporters claim that they have already raised $250,000 from small donations and seem confident that they will be able to get $500,000 more in order to meet the anticipated costs of the campaign. Says Industrialist Henry Salvatori, a leading G.O.P. fund contributor and staunch Reagan supporter: "There...
...British diplomats decided, however, to withhold the information from Stalin in order to spare him any personal pain. It was a gentlemanly thing to do; but Stalin had never had much use for his sensitive and with drawn son. He hounded and beat the boy so unmercifully that in the Kremlin one night in the late 1920s, Yakov tried to shoot himself. He only managed to inflict a serious head wound, and Stalin afterward taunted him that he was incapable even of killing himself. It might have impressed the old man to know that his son finally mustered the courage...
...class committee will soon solicit contributions to enable Harvard to continue with its great work. I propose the opposite, and will soon begin a pledge campaign to withhold donations from Harvard until the Administration offers some adequate statement about this military juggernaut which will soon force us by scores into the jails or out of the country. One way or another, we will be unable to contribute financially to Harvard; it is time now to declare that understanding to President Pusey. Thanks to his silence about the relevant issues and his eagerness to condemn the weak and beaten...