Word: desist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gandhi: "I would declare my heresies and be shot. ... I should ask you to declare your views against Japan and in so doing make Japan live through your death. But, for this, inner conviction is necessary." Said Kagawa: "The conviction is there. But friends have been asking me to desist." Said Gandhi, knowing nothing of doing nothing except on the advice of friends: "Don't listen to friends when the friend inside you says 'Do this.' " Purge. First victim of the new nation alist purge in Japan last week was the Salvation Army. After dismissing...
Last fortnight the Federal Trade Commission ordered Scientific Instruments, Inc. of Chicago to "cease and desist from representing . . . that its birth control device, The Rule of Life, or O. K. Calendar or any other device operating upon the same theory, provides a method of complete, or any definitely stated percentage, of birth control...