Word: desist
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...poor boy from Hepzibah (pop. 400), W. Va., Samuel Desist had every reason to live down to his patronym. But, setting his sights on an Army career, he enlisted and persisted. By 1962, when he was 39, Sam Desist wore a major's gold oak leaf and was press officer for the U.S. Army at Orléans in France. Desist also acquired a chic French wife, who bore him two sons, and a taste for la vie as it is not lived in Hepzibah...
...they want to kill me, let them. I shall die for the nation." His antics prompted ailing President Cemal Gursel, 70, head of the junta that overthrew Menderes, to hint that if Demirel tries strong-arm tactics now or after the election, the military will force him to desist. "We are not a mature nation," said Gursel. "We take many roads, legal and illegal and sometimes dangerous, to exploit the people. I promise that no one ever again will have enough power to make the country turn back to the dark past...
Down with Squirrel Guns. Despite last week's headlines, and the FTC's reputation as a very litigious lady, the commission has been trying to reduce its legal assaults. It issued 415 cease-and-desist orders last year-12% fewer than in 1963. Its $28,500-a-year chairman, Paul Rand Dixon, a husky Tennessean, scorns what he calls "the squirrel-gun approach" of suits against individual violators, prefers to lay down ground rules for entire industries...
...summary, the State Department should desist from denying other people their right of self-determination. The State Department should stop kidding benevolent American taxpayers--to whom we owe our sincere gratitude--into believing that it is combating Communism in Africa. The U.S. government is only massacring Africans who never heard of Communism nor are even threatened by Communism. We loathe Communism as much as we abhor U.S. military intervention in African affairs. However, should the U.S. continue to massacre the ignorant Africans, then we will be forced to ask Communist countries that are equally strong to save us from this...
Combing Wave. The letters offer no single exposition of Frost's theories of writing, but remarks scattered about the volume show something of his approach. He cuts off a good-humored parody of free verse with a perfectly serious joke: "But I desist for want of knowing where to cut my lines unhokuspokusly." He wrote to John Cournos, an unsuccessful novelist: "There are the very regular, pre-established accent and measure of blank verse; and there are the very irregular accent and measure of speaking intonation. I am never more pleased than when I can get these two into...