Word: abstained
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...House clock were moving close to 10 p.m., the hour for the final vote on Prime Minister Harold Wilson's drastic bill to freeze wages and prices. Wilson knew that he would win. But he also knew that some two dozen left-wing Laborites were certain to abstain in protest against his tactics in steamrollering the bill through Commons...
...will follow that system which . . . I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous...
...your article on me ("Local LSD PR-Girl," April 29) you make the editorial comment that Timothy Leary's recent warnings may have made a change in my life. Leary resolved to abstain from LSD for a year, and advised others to do the same...
...Judaism's gifts to the ancient world, which had no concept of a regular weekly respite from work. Taking their cue from Biblical evidence that God rested on the seventh day of creation, Jews from the earliest days kept Saturday sacred as a time to abstain from manual labor and pray to the Lord God of Israel. The early Christians kept the principle, but gradually shifted the time of observance to Sunday. It proved sound against such onslaughts as the French Revolution's attempt to establish a ten-day week, and colonialism carried it around the world...
...other three eliminated candidates in opposing De Gaulle. The most important of them, pro-Europe, Catholic Centrist Jean Lecanuet, could not quite go all the way to an endorsement of Mitterrand with his Communist backing, but he advised his 3,700,000 voters either to choose Mitterrand or abstain altogether from voting...