Word: desist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, April 23), complained loudly before the Cleveland assembly because the General Council of the Church had issued a pamphlet detailing how illegal the board is. Last week, after three hours of clamorous debate, the assembly voted that members of the independent board must sever their connections with it, desist from soliciting funds and cease from usurping official authority-or else be disciplined by their presbyteries. Confident of increased prosperity this year, the Presbyterian Finance Committee upped its benevolence budget to $8,000,000 in expectation of $2,000,000 more than was received last year. Star guest speaker...
...following story, I often tell, to illustrate like situations: Sam Lapowski's El Paso neighbor was one Stevens, pioneer realtor, robust, energetic, a veritable fanatic on exercise which often found vent in "sunrise lawn-mowing." One day Lapowski burst into Stevens' office demanding that he (Stevens) desist from his sunrise activities or permit him to hire his mowing done at a more sane and reasonable hour. In explaining the outburst to the nonplussed Stevens, who was about "to go into action," Lapowski said his wife thought him lazy because he liked to lay abed and every time Stevens...
...cost of coal in the Mahoning Valley 40? a ton. The laborers stopped to read some notices posted overnight by a U. S. marshal. No work was done that clay or the next or the next. The notices were a temporary injunction commanding Montour R. R. to cease & desist from all construction. Though few of the construction gang knew it, their work was halted by President Atleroury of Pennsylvania R. R. and his chief competitor, President William-son of New York Central. And the laborers were probably equally ignorant of the fact that the injunction was aimed...
...wage, the clerks, the stenographers, the professional men will be the people to suffer under this unbridled expansion. That is what it is because the rein is so loose that the steed will never stop until he goes over the precipice, killing his rider. "I find I must desist. It is painful to disagree with the occupant of the White House whom I love and respect. But I am one Democrat who is going to vote against this inflation amendment. I may have regret but shall never make apologies for acting upon my own convictions and conscience." But no speech...
...room is still, except for the steady, monotonous pounding of the hammer in the hand of one of the children, who is attempting to nail the spatulate toes of the Vagabond to the floor. He persuades the little creature to desist by a smart cuff to the side of the head; it rambles off across the floor, wriggling like an inebriated grub; it reaches the side of its confrere, and regards him with a vacuous, faintly irritating expression. Finally, flushing to the roots of its hair, it strikes the other, who succumbs with a pitiful rattle in its throat...