Word: abstentionist
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...negotiations. Thus the likely immediate prospect seemed to be a minority Christian Democratic "seaside Cabinet" for the summer interim. Certainly, disillusioned Italian voters appeared to want a holiday from wrangling, inconclusive politics: at the polls a record 1.7 million blank ballots gave birth to what wags called the new "Abstentionist Party...
...years ago voters of the two counties, who passionately prefer union with Eire to partition with Northern Ireland, elected Editor Mulvey and Farmer Cunningham to seats in the British Parliament on an abstentionist platform. They promptly refused to take their seats. Thus the two M.P.s at once protested partition, forfeited aggregate salaries of ?5,600 ($23,800) each, became Westminster's most modern ghosts...
...Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, had previously played a lone hand in Bucharest, ignoring the Allied Commission and dealing directly with young King Mihai. Perhaps Joseph Stalin needed time to bring his bureaucracy into line with the Yalta doctrine, just as Franklin Roosevelt had needed time to bring his abstentionist State Department into line with the new U.S. policy of responsibility in Europe...
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