Word: desist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have done. Reuther also doubtless considered that a strike against Chrysler would be less of a drain on the U.A.W. strike fund, would have the best chance of early success, and would probably damage the economy least, thus creating the least public pressure on the union to desist. There could be a serious flaw in Reuther's thinking: Chrysler still accounts for only 14% of auto-industry sales, and G.M. and Ford just might refuse to sign any contracts patterned after one won from the smallest of the Big Three...
...smoothly suggested that now was the time to normalize trade relations-meaning his lost sugar sales-and mused about the possibility of resuming diplomatic relations. He even admitted that he had supplied aid to guerrillas in other parts of Latin America, and airily offered to cease and desist if the U.S. would end its own subversive activity inside Cuba. "We do not hate you," said Castro magnanimously. "If the U.S. is ready to live with us, then we would feel the same obligation...
...Friendly came right out and called Emmy a tart. "Insofar as CBS News is concerned," he wrote in a memo to the staff, "we have not and shall not purchase memberships for our employees; we shall not participate in the awards ceremonies, and I recommend that we even desist from voting in this so-called competition...
Soon Scandalous John and Paco, mounted on two broken-down nags, are relentlessly driving Old Blue up the Chisum Trail toward the distant stock yards. For weeks through sun, sand and storm, they plod onward, encountering temptation and incomprehension. Nearly everybody along the way tries to persuade John to desist. As for the neatly laid-out fences that block their path, he blithely cuts them. "If you want to get some place in this world," he says, "you've got to cut fence now and again . . . The extent of a man's fences is the extent...
...want to know if there were any Negroes in the Ark." In pursuit of his obsessions, Beckwith passed out racist pamphlets that he wrote himself, launched such an aggressive recruiting drive for the local white Citizens Council that its officers finally asked him to desist. He also stood in the doorway of Greenwood's bus terminal to block Negroes trying to integrate the facilities...