Word: desist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taken up by Poland's well-organized and politically conscious factory workers, who had been in the forefront of the Poznan rebellion. If they were, Gomulka would find himself in serious trouble. So far, most major factory-workers units refused to sign petitions calling on the students to desist...
...want you to send up that proclamation. It looks like I will have to sign it, but I want "to read it again." That evening, on the sun porch of his living quarters, President Eisenhower signed the proclamation commanding all persons obstructing justice in Little Rock "to cease and desist therefrom and to disperse forthwith...
...hate and contempt for everything Russian. In Warsaw, for example, people would not enter the new Palace of Justice simply because it was Stalin-built. And when a person on the street was asked the direction of a certain street or square, renamed by the Communists, he would invariably desist from answering. Or he might say that if so and so street was meant (the original name), it was right over there...
...Cease & Desist. Against Russia's attack in the U.N., the U.S. planned another counterpunch. At a special U.N. session this week, U.S. Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge would propose a resolution calling upon Russia and the puppet Kadar government to "desist from repressive measures against the Hungarian people." Nobody had much hope that the resolution would help the Hungarians. What it might do is to keep alive in the world's mind and heart the awareness of Soviet cruelty and treachery. Such a reminder may be necessary when the Russian delegation starts filling the air with denunciations...
...wholesome ex-G.I. But she still loves the playwright, and in a hilarious and nightmarish murder scene Humbert pumps bullet after bullet into him while the victim protests with phony British aplomb: "Ah. that hurts, sir, enough! Ah, that hurts atrociously, my dear fellow. I pray you, desist...