Word: desist
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...Intends to discuss only Korea and Indo-China with Red China at Geneva, hopes Geneva will bring Peking to cease and desist its design for conquest, but does not intend to "give Communist China what it wants from us, merely in exchange for promises of future good behavior...
...Kind to Democrats. Back at the White House, Ike issued no further reprimands or "cease and desist" orders to his White House staff, and there were signs that the loudest G.O.P. talkers would keep on talking. Attorney General Herbert Brownell got a big laugh in Boston by flipping: "If this weren't be-kind-to-Democrats week, I might talk about Harry Dexter White." In San Mateo, Calif., Joe McCarthy said he had "no plans for a major change in my line of speeches." (The line: the nation has just survived "20 years of treason.") And in Jeffersonville, Indiana...
...Queen and husband Philip spent the night at Government House, watched the traditional lambeg drummers lambasting their three-foot drums with ferocious, stout-filled glee. Eventually, they gave Elizabeth a headache, and Sir Basil Brooke, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, popped his head outside to ask them to desist. They did, but said goodnight by playfully clouting him with their caps...
...health conditions in America. If we abdicate this responsibility . . . then other elements in our society will take over and we will find ourselves under a distasteful system of medical care. If organized medicine is to retain its rightful place of esteem in our society, it had better cease and desist at once from its current policy of proclaiming that it alone can decide whether there are any health problems in this country, and that it alone can decide what the average doctor should think about the pressing problems...
...must tell the Kremlin that never shall we desist in our aid to every man and woman of those shackled lands who seek refuge with us, any man who keeps burning among his own people the flame of freedom or who is dedicated to the liberation of his fellows...