Word: abstentionism
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Menon's pettishness did nothing to help India's case. "People here," said a Canadian delegate, "are not so much pro-Pakistan or pro-India as they are anti-Menon. Every time he opens his mouth, people want to vote against him." In the roll call that followed...
Savrola is a rollingly romantic tale of "revolution in Laurania," and Churchill some years later, after noting that it "yielded about seven hundred pounds" (not more than $3,500), confessed: "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it." The legend, though denied by son Randolph, persists that...
Protest, however, was in vain. For one reason or another, 21 of the pro-government Assemblymen failed to answer roll call last week when the last of the law's 58 provisions came 10 a vote. Whether that was a gesture of confidence or abstention made no difference: in...
Councillor Hyman Pill explained the CCA's abstention by asserting that the association's minority will "wait and see" which independent will agree to cooperate with CCA-backed city manager John J. Curry '19 and uphold CCA school committee policies. Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, unofficial spokesman for the CCA group...
No one can foresee whether the best answers will in the end come through chemicals or the scalpel, or both-or how much longer the tough, miraculous and mysterious sac of muscle will elude man's determination to control it. But one of the most hopeful items in medicine...