Word: desist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that they desist from acquiring existing buildings in the City...
...cease defining and defending American foreign policies in grossly oversimplified terms. Let us also desist from the excessive spirit of mea culpa which permeates certain quarters of American society." Since World War II, they said, the U.S. has performed remarkably well in international affairs...
...exlaims: "I do not know which remedy to use, which sheep should I run to help? 1 cannot defend them all, so it would be best to desist from...
...Commodore Ky to the Anglicized altitude of air vice-marshal. In return, Ky twice scrambled his Skyraiders over Saigon to stave off coup attempts against Khanh's 'government-once even resorting to the cold threat to flatten Saigon with bombs if the rebels refused to cease and desist. Ky probably would not have carried out the threat, but the plotters could never be sure. They ceased and desisted...
...also charged with complicity. Meanwhile, agents had swooped down on Conder's trailer home in Columbus, arrested him and recovered the hot heroin. In Miami Beach, agents picked up Dio, who a few days earlier had flown to New York and lunched with Le Franc. As for Chevalier Desist, he was lodged in the Orléans jail, and faced the prospect of extradition and a different kind of vie back home...