Word: abstainers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered that the Southern rail and bus companies be "required to cease and desist, on or before Jan. 10, 1956, and thereafter to abstain from practicing the undue and unreasonable prejudice and disadvantage found to exist...
...membership from 60 to 77. Russia promised not to veto the West's list: Austria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal and Spain. In return, the U.S. would not veto the Russian candidates: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania. The U.S. also, agreed to abstain on Outer Mongolia, but counted on this barren Soviet outpost's not getting enough votes...
Between the gods and the faithful who worship at the 100 Jain* temples of Ahmedabad in western India stand 600-odd priests. Theirs is a hard and holy life; they say ritual prayers, guard temple treasures, abstain from smoking and drinking, sup before sundown (for lamps lure moths to destruction), and wear white cloth pads over their noses and mouths (lest their breathing destroy gnats or germs). Their wages never exceed $5 a month...
Drizzle in Green Bay. Stevenson made his first strictly political appearance and speech of the season at the Wisconsin State Democratic Convention in Green Bay. He seemed uncomfortably restrained, perhaps because he wanted to abstain from outright campaigning until his formal announcement next month. He did no glad-handing and he drew no cheers from the small crowd waiting in the rain at Green Bay. At the Northland Hotel he stayed close to his room, did not visit the Stevenson-for-President offices on the floor above...
...three of the crashes). After graduation (and orders to duty with the Royal Scots Grays), the Duke blushingly denied that his cousin, Queen Elizabeth II, had ordered him henceforth to do his landborne flying only with an experienced copilot at his side. His bland explanation for his plans to abstain from driving for a while: "I have simply not got a car to drive...