Word: abstains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...austerity program : a 200-billion-franc tax increase, a 40% cut in dollar imports. He knew that he would be fought by Communists on the left and Gaullists on the right. He could not count on the help of the Socialists, who had announced that they would abstain. "If we get less than a ten-vote majority, we'll resign," said Pleven. "If we get more than twelve, we'll talk it over." The vote was 246 to 228-a majority...
Women, according to Pugh's results, seem to have a definite affect on the quantity a man will drink. Among those in the four consumption levels, only the occasional drinkers abstain while on dates. Social drinkers do drink on dates Light-heavy and heavy drinkers always...
...days? No, according to the Archbishopric of Vienna; the whale is no fish but a warm-blooded mammal-hence forbidden. When the question was put to the Vatican, officials of the Holy Office deliberated long & hard. Last week came the answer: on Fridays and other abstinence days Catholics must abstain from "beasts of the fields and fowl of the air." Underwater creatures-even if they come up for air, or occasionally come ashore for a brief siesta-count as fish. Whale meat on Friday...
...Tory and Labor-held immovably to their positions in the 3950 election. The only movement in Britain's electoral machinery was that of the Liberals. In some 500 constituencies where there was no Liberal candidate, the Liberal voters were forced to choose between extremes they disliked or to abstain from voting. Those who voted went Tory three times out of five. The results...
...village eight miles southeast of Kaesong. Songhyon, said Ridgway, would have the advantage of being "approximately midway between the battle lines" and "it would, of course, be agreed by both sides that this meeting place would be kept free of armed troops and that both sides would abstain from any hostile acts...