Word: abstain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evan A. Davis '66 suggested that the HCUA might sponsor delegates, but instruct them to abstain from voting on controversial political issues. Other council members felt, however, that if Harvard stays in NSA, it should "stay...
Lump of Sugar. In the space of three days, Tshombe 1) promised to "abstain from making any declarations against the U.N."; 2) immediately broke his promise by threatening "a scorched-earth policy" in Kolwezi (see WORLD BUSINESS) ; 3) was clapped under house arrest by infuriated U.N. officials "to restrain him from further irresponsible acts"; and 4) got his house arrest commuted to a nighttime curfew by leading the U.N. troops to the Rhodesian border. Then, having baffled everybody, he vanished once more from the capital...
Marianne Moore: "Some of her poems have the lacy mathematical extravagance of a snowflake." But some ''have the manner of ladies who learned a little before birth not to mention money, who neither point nor touch, who scrupulously abstain from the mixed, live vulgarity of life...
...delegates from 102 countries gathered for a World Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists in San Francisco last week, there was a note of gentle irony in their choice of one of their meeting places−the Cow Palace. Vegetarians by conviction, almost all Adventists abstain from meat. They tend to abstain from alcohol, nicotine, coffee, tea, cosmetics, jewelry, dancing, card playing, movies, the theater, and "sensational" TV shows...
...suspend aid to any country that has seized U.S. property without providing compensation in six months. The Prime Minister's response was to draft a waspish letter to the ambassador, retorting that "the best form of foreign aid the U.S. can give to small countries is to abstain from interfering in their affairs...