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Four of the eight Mapai members defied Ben-Gurion; three others-including Moshe Dayan, one of the accused-said they would abstain. Foreign Minister Golda Meir, a potent force in Mapai, grew so angry that she wrote out her resignation, was persuaded to withdraw it, and then stalked out of the meeting. So did angry Prime Minister Ben-Gurion. By a vote of no, the remaining ministers cleared Pinhas Lavon...
...transport sperm from the testes to the ejaculatory duct. A local anesthetic is used, the vasa are tied off, and two stitches are taken to close the wound in the scrotum. The operation takes about ten minutes and requires only three days of convalescence. Indian surgeons tell patients to abstain from sexual relations for at least a month to avoid any chance of impregnating their wives with live sperm remaining in the tubes...
...impressionable young ladies. A 22-year-old salesgirl at the giant Takashi-maya department store in Tokyo gushed to an inquiring reporter: "He is rich, young, handsome and intelligent-the most ideal man in the world." Reiko Dan, a leading Japanese movie actress, confided that she would abstain from voting because Japanese parties lacked "a handsome candidate like Mr. Kennedy...
...usual mark of the neutral is to abstain on issues tied closely to the cold war. When the Soviet Union moved to debate the flights of the U-2 and RB-47, the U.S. won the balloting 54 to 10, but one third of the U.N. membership abstained, including countries generally considered pro-Western (Austria, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Liberia...
...tradition, the author provides a gentle but undeluded view of her villagers. The priest, Father Roque, is a good but henpecked man who, when vexed, is fond of wondering how his idol, Cardinal Spellman, would deal with his parishioners. "Oh, Lord, let her eat fewer raw onions, let her abstain from onions, let her learn to abhor them," he implores, after listening in tears to his harridan of a housekeeper. Among Father Roque's other trials are an arrogant matron who will not bathe ("Imagine finding yourself naked in a puddle of water!"), a telephone operator who like most...